Example sentences for: characters

How can you use “characters” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But it makes the latest characters seem like a lapse in taste rather than morals.

  • The heroes of his early stories, from the 1940s and '50s, tend to be poor, inarticulate shopkeepers and workers (tailors, grocers, shoemakers, census-takers--Malamud almost always identified his characters by profession, in a bow to the proletarianism of the '30s), New York Jews mostly, whose rough outer appearances suddenly fall away to reveal inner souls of the purest lyrical passion.

  • The drama comes from the way Shawn craftily shifts your sympathy back and forth among characters.

  • Singer is very good at evoking the palimpsest imprints of his characters' layered lives in a way that gives them more modernist complexity than his rather conventional conception of character and plot might otherwise have allowed for.

  • You can't make this world seem too welcoming or the characters will lose the incentive to seek out a better one.


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