How to Use protagonist in a Sentence

protagonist

noun

• She was a leading protagonist in the civil rights movement.
• Milton Friedman is usually cited as the leading American protagonist of monetarism.
• And that's what Maya as a protagonist in the book goes through as well.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
• And how does the movie end for our two protagonists, Lucy and Summer?
  — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 5 Nov. 2024
• In the trailer, Ichiban, the floofy-haired protagonist of Like a Dragon, has washed up on a beach butt-ass-naked.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 11 June 2023
• The new game will feature a playable female protagonist for the first time.
  — Time, 25 Aug. 2023
• Killjoy's vengeful protagonists gave me a lot of new ideas about how to kill men.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 29 May 2023
• The protagonist in this stage play, of course, is the traveler.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• The protagonist in this movie’s name is Noelle, but so is her on-again, off-again boyfriend’s new girlfriend.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2022
• But there is one man who has emerged as the campaign’s chief protagonist.
  — Claire Moses, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• The narrative and its chief protagonist were harder to find in the series between the Celtics and the Mavs.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
• The human drama of the protagonists, what brought them to trial in the first place, should constitute the essence of the action.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• That's a good quality in an adult and in a protagonist.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2022
• Those aspects linked to the protagonist Maomao in my view.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2023
• It was set in jail and one of her protagonists had these impulses too.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• The book spends scant time on the protagonist’s parents, while the show embraces their pursuit of the American Dream.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• But the protagonist of the film is his date Margot, a last-minute addition to the meal who’s oblivious to the norms of a restaurant like this.
  — Serena Dai, Bon Appétit, 10 Nov. 2022
• Some beats opt to teach rather than explore, and most of the stories center white protagonists.
  — Mike Scalise, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2023
• But the creators have something else in mind for their protagonist.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
• Our protagonist downs another shot, shakes her shiny blonde hair loose and walks right up to him.
  — Lyric Li, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
• So to have Yasuda pen the protagonist’s G-Self mobile suit was and still is great.
  — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
• The protagonist can’t seem to get past the disappointment.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2024
• Six of the film’s main protagonists were present, treating the crowd on the Croisette to a live street theater performance during their stay in Cannes.
  — Lise Pedersen, Variety, 21 May 2024
• In the film, protagonist Damon harbors a longtime celebrity crush on the singer and dancer Mýa.
  — Time, 13 Jan. 2023
• The protagonist of the new film Poor Things is no ordinary heroine.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2023
• His new film, to put it simply, appears to be a love letter to Naples with a female protagonist.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 23 June 2023
• Chung Suet-ying, a real-life Cantopop lyricist, steps into the shoes of the film’s protagonist.
  — Partner Content, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
• Magnolia Wu, the protagonist in her new book, is an almost-10-year-old girl who lives in New York City with her parents.
  — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 19 May 2024
• But she’s been more inspired by modern tales like Brave, Moana, Encanto and of course Frozen, where the female protagonists have more at stake than just finding love.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 22 Nov. 2024
• Tyrnauer lauds his protagonist for having the courage to tell the Democratic Party leadership that Biden was going to lose and action needed to be taken to avoid electoral disaster.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 22 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024