main character
Example Sentences
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She stops being the main character in her own story, says Victoria L. Jackson, a sports historian and co-director of the Great Game Lab, a research entity at Arizona State University.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Like the main character, Colin, he spent long stints in bed, but he says the ending did not reflect his reality, so he decided to re-write it.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
This much silence from pop music’s most dramatic main character, biggest cornball and most profligate breadcrumb dropper has rattled the usual channels for all things Swift.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Some authors want to give their main character a happy ending.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
As he’d requested, I did not use Norman Bowker’s name, instead substituting the name of my novel’s main character, Paul Berlin.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
