heroines

Example Sentences

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In “Trouble,” she buzzes with nervous energy, her dizzying delivery of Raphaelson’s smart dialogue creating the template for the screwball heroines soon to follow.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

You can’t help rooting for Colleen Hoover heroines, bless their bruised hearts.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

She has made images of performers such as Charles Dance and Roger Daltrey and Second World War heroines such as Noor Inayat Khan and Violette Szabo.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2026

Orchards, wildernesses and bowers abound in her fiction, where her heroines contemplate curated views or scamper across fields and over stiles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

It was a relief not to be writing out the she saids, or describing the weather or the onset of spring or her heroines face—beauty, she had discovered, occupied a narrow band.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan