main character

Example Sentences

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"There has been a lot of male protagonists and a lot of men have felt like they can be that main character," she says.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

You can’t have your main character die in a first scene.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

“All In the Family” signposted its main character’s irascible bigotry and generation-gap grievances in the first minute by having its main character sing wistfully of a time when “Guys like me we had it made.”

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

They will insert their own likeness into an AI movie generator so they can watch a movie with themselves as the main character.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

I remember the plot clearly, or at least the premise, because the main character was a corpse.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien