leading character

Example Sentences

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The set is the centerpiece of a movie studio that is itself a leading character in Hollywood lore.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2025

“So many times throughout this process, I’ve definitely had moments where I’m like, ‘Am I out of my mind by having this person to be our leading character?’

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2023

“It was a very sweet leading character to play, because the character doesn’t know what’s going on and I didn’t either.”

From Washington Post • May 6, 2022

Its leading character is a certain genial and eccentric Lord Peter Wimsey, younger brother of the Duke of Denver, who has taken up amateur detecting as a pastime.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

So excellent an artist as Stevenson, in the “New Arabian Nights,” began each tale in the collection with a paragraph in which he expounded the main traits of the leading character.

From A Manual of the Art of Fiction by Hamilton, Clayton Meeker