heroine

How To Use heroine In A Sentence

• She's the prettiest, most ethereal romantic heroine in the movies.
• Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
• Dormant until today, the Olympic tennis stadium suddenly erupted when the Greek heroine came from a set down to gain momentum in the second session.
• But she's not actually ugly; she's just pert and smart-mouthed and has a sexy voice, completely according with that rom-com genre convention of the comic sidekick to the heroine.
• When Kwan shocked Hong Kong by coming out, he was already established as one of the city's best filmmakers, esteemed for his finely tuned aesthetics and perfectly realized tragic heroines.
• It should be noted that society was only willing to let these girls be heroines if they wore tight clothes and were beautiful.
• And why is there no statue or Bank Holiday to the memory of this national hero or heroine? Times, Sunday Times
• The story follows on from the death of the heroine.
• Complex analysis of the international tale of the hero or heroine who glimpses a forbidden sight and suffers for it.
• This one reminded me of Louise Bagshawe or one of the other British bonkbuster authors - quite European though it's set in LA and New York as well as France and revenge-oriented rather than Phillips' usual football-player types being thrust into situations with quirky heroines. Archive 2009-04-01