How to Use antiheroine in a Sentence

antiheroine

noun

• The antiheroines are Brentwood moms who were driven to lives of crime by lofty ambitions and high-status anxiety.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019
• Its most recent episode aired five months ago — a wait that would surely have tested the patience of the show’s antiheroine Annalise Keating (Viola Davis), let alone fans.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2020
• Emma Stone stars as our devilish antiheroine and Emma Thompson provides her old-school fashion foil as the Baroness.
  — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2021
• In Regina, whose individualism is refined rather than rugged, Hellman created one of the stage’s great antiheroines and a glide bomb of a role.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2017
• One of her longest-running was Cellulite, an emancipated princess who was tired of waiting for her Prince Charming and who became one of the first female antiheroines of French comics.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• Harley Quinn is a former gymnast who eventually traded in her leotard for a psychologist's lab coat — and then traded that in for the colourful wardrobe of a comic book antiheroine.
  — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 27 Mar. 2020
• For my money, no literary antiheroine can best Undine—a dazzling monster with rose-gold hair, creamy skin, and a gaping spiritual maw that could swallow New York City.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2019
• The film’s antiheroine is played by Keira Knightley, who just might take your breath away with her historically inaccurate gowns bedecked with Tiffany and Chanel accessories.
  — Vogue, 3 Nov. 2020
• Their preferred palettes differ significantly, too; where red is our antiheroine's signature color, her nemesis appears primarily in browns, greens, and golds (though she's pictured here at a black-and-white ball).
  — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• Fictional male antiheroes like television's crime patriarchs Tony Soprano and Walter White have reigned for some time, but the antiheroine has only more recently had the opportunity to rise up -- and become the cause of her own downfall.
  — CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• Sissy Spacek's breakthrough performance as the title character cemented her as the classic vengeful antiheroine.
  — CNN, 11 Aug. 2021
• Both characters, too, were antiheroines, and Ms. Farron revealed their complexity — dignified yet sensual and given to startling flashes of venomous anger.
  — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 24 July 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024