heroines

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

He’s a little too awful for me, but I do think we could use less sanitized heroes and heroines in modern love stories.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

Over the years, Dharmendra said he was cast against 70 heroines, but his most successful screen pairing was with Hema Malini, who later became his second wife.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

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

She had been prompted to start a diary because fictional heroines kept them and filled them with lush sighing thoughts.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith