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.
  • 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
  • That's the train of thought of Margot, the heroine, while with Robert in person.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 17 Nov. 2020
  • The heroine and the film are both agreed that the world is a better place without any of them.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • The song helped Cameron, 66, come up with the idea of giving his heroine, Sarah Connor, a son, John.
    — Alexia Fernández, PEOPLE.com, 1 July 2021
  • When the heroine makes a wish, she's answered by a cosmic force named Star.
    — Jillian Pretzel, Peoplemag, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Natalie Wood played Maria in the 1961 film, with Marni Nixon's voice dubbed in for all the heroine's songs.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Among the heroines of his telling was Afeni Shakur, who was pregnant with Tupac at the time of the trial.
    — Ginia Bellafante, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • 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
  • Much like its heroine at the end of Act 1, the Cinderella story is ready for a makeover.
    — Mary Sollosi, EW.com, 14 May 2021
  • 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
  • It’s polished and spooky and has a hologram — a kind of proto-NFT? — for a heroine.
    — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Lofink’s son died of a opiate and heroine overdose in 2014.
    — Yasmine Askari, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 22 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • The pride of the British aristocracy and a heroine to gay people and ethnic minorities.
    — Air Mail, 10 May 2025
  • Santa Juana makes for an appealingly plucky heroine, and Richard Harmon has some very funny moments as one of Stefani’s snarky cousins.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2025

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