leading character
Example Sentences
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Tina Huang, who plays the leading character Kat Chan, pointed out how a majority of the people on and off stage for the production identify as Asian American or Pacific Islander.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2022
“Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government,” Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 70.
From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2022
A leading character is an Arab teenager, Nahim, who turns out to be the lover of Adam’s daughter, a narrative that was a daring literary choice for the time.
From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2022
Sparks fly during Christmastime when a romance novelist meets a handsome man who looks like the leading character in her books.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2020
It is well known that Seraphael, its leading character, is the author's ideal of Mendelssohn, and that the romance was intended to be a memorial of him.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth
