leading person
Example Sentences
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He is an absolutely leading person in that club.
From BBC • May 4, 2025
There were Caciques placed in the Villages, or some other leading person to hear suits and public demands.
From History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII. by Means, Philip Ainsworth
It appears that Governor Hutchinson was a leading person in dissolving the bank, and from that time Adams was the bitter enemy of Hutchinson and the government.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
Henceforth you will be the leading person, the head of the house.
From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
His position as the principal man of his section of the town, and his own good sense, made him the leading person in his neighborhood.
From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by Cooke, George Willis