characters

Example Sentences

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Then scammers typically pile on pressure, adding voices claiming to be attorneys, courtroom clerks or bank tellers -- a cast of fictitious characters in a chaotic, urgent-sounding call.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

Holman said he was also guided by Dame Jilly when creating different looks for her characters.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

Not because the story and characters were anything less than gripping —I was utterly transfixed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

One could easily view that as the producers’ rebuttal to malcontents eager to take them to task for making over Rice’s characters to believably meet modern times in all of their complexity.

From Salon • Nov. 13, 2022

“It’s easy to jump into world-ending stakes when you’re controlling video game characters, you know? Not as easy when you’re thrown into an actual world-ending adventure.”

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer