protagonist
Example Sentences
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As in the movies, it was protection for the protagonist against those who would dare a challenge.
Shot in the style of cinéma vérité, Mojica appears as both a narrator and protagonist.
From Los Angeles Times
Some readers imagine Kafka’s protagonist, Gregor Samsa, a hardworking salesman in a city that seems analogous to Kafka’s native Prague, has morphed into a cockroach.
Carson McCullers’s 12-year-old protagonist, who lives in a small Southern town, is in crisis throughout the August weekend of her brother’s nuptials.
A key protagonist in the protest movement was Reza Pahlavi, the son of the ousted shah.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
