protagonist

Example Sentences

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Yeah, I’ve read a lot of books I admire about singular protagonists.

From Los Angeles Times

Generally speaking, it’s more angular, more acid, more morbid, more willing to let a protagonist stew in misery, more suspicious of sentiment than our comparatively genial homegrown brand.

From Los Angeles Times

Her fiction took characters who had traditionally been marginal presences—in her case, African-Americans—and made them protagonists.

From The Wall Street Journal

Throughout the novel - the cover of which is pastel pink with the title spelled out in children's alphabet blocks - the protagonist uses child-like language, wears children's clothing, and engages in child-like behaviour.

From BBC

But unlike those movies, “Taxi Driver” declined to provide audiences with an access point in the form of a noble protagonist.

From The Wall Street Journal