How to Use heroine in a Sentence

heroine

noun

• The town remembered her as the heroine of the flood and erected a statue in her honor.
• And there, right above the fold, was a photograph of that very heroine: Frances Oldham Kelsey.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2024
• Unlike her young heroine, Sciamma lost her grandmothers well into her adulthood.
  — NBC News, 27 Apr. 2022
• On Hulu, the romantic comedy Crush breezes past the question of its heroine’s queerness in the film’s first five minutes.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 May 2022
• Explore the parallels between Rain and the iconic franchise heroine, Ripley and learn how filmmakers brought back a face from the past.
  — Jack Dunn, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
• The mark of a true heroine is confidence and courage, and the leading ladies of your favorite Disney films, Marvel movies and television shows are not short on either.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 12 May 2022
• Our heroine Cam pulls off a truly icky DIY surgery in the back of a speeding vehicle being driven by desperate men.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 8 Apr. 2022
• To her critics, the foreign secretary was purposefully mimicking her great heroine in the hope that some of the Iron Lady’s aura might rub off on her.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 9 May 2022
• Its heroine, Julia, is a Black seamstress in love with a white baker named Herman, a situation that her neighbors and the law disapprove of.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
• Esther, who is humble, kind and profoundly vulnerable, remains Nottage’s most moving heroine.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2022
• Our heroine has the tools: a hatchet, a knife and a flint.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• But in the sequel, the drama doesn’t just play out in the heroine’s head.
  — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2024
• The song celebrates a turning point in the life of the heroine, a 17-year-old based on the younger Ms. Keys.
  — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2023
• One of the guests is found dead, and our heroine must kick into sleuthing mode?
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• Our heroine makes the chop, much to her BFF Mindy's dismay.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 26 Sep. 2022
• Our heroine, Daphne Ferber, is unlucky in love and in need of a change.
  — Charles Arrowsmith, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
• When the heroine makes a wish, she's answered by a cosmic force named Star.
  — Jillian Pretzel, Peoplemag, 28 Apr. 2023
• The heroine is a young woman who, like Loberti, cannot see.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 19 Oct. 2023
• Who Smashed Codes, about a puzzle-solving heroine of the world wars.
  — Jason Fagone, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 July 2022
• After all, what kind of heroine would leave before the roof caves in?
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2024
• This is high praise considering that our heroine spends 85% of the book in the desert and the rest at a Best Western.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• Try not to judge its heroine too harshly at first glance.
  — Time, 4 Nov. 2022
• The upside was getting to see avant-garde heroine Björk cruise through her soundcheck on the main stage across the grounds.
  — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 20 Apr. 2023
• The scene fades, the credits roll, and next week our heroine will return, unchanged.
  — Mikayla Dawson, Women's Health, 23 June 2023
• But much like its own heroine, High Desert has a way of making too much feel just right.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
• To be a soap opera heroine is to be a virgin, especially in the Nineties.
  — Maitland Ward, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2023
• One of them is the film’s heroine, Bailey (Nykiya Adams), who is 12 but seems older.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2024
• If that isn’t a feminist dream, then the movement needs to make more room for heroines like you.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 26 June 2023
• If that is not a feminist dream, then the movement needs to make more room for heroines like you.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• Lawrence starred as the heroine of the first four Hunger Games films, which are based on the young-adult dystopian book series of the same name by Suzanne Collins.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024