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Example sentences for: hero

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

Mickey Sabbath, the irreverent, renegade hero of Philip Roth's apocalyptic Sabbath's Theater , would hardly raise an eyebrow here.
Willes is also pushing "hero" stories and civic journalism, the kind of pandering to readers that infuriates editors.
The Globe claims that Nielsen, who has universally been lauded as a hero, is actually a "sad, selfish woman" who cheated on her ex-husband and deserted her children.
But his mistake is the opposite of Benton's in Twilight . Where Benton couldn't distance himself enough from his protagonist to generate a comic perspective, Kwietniowski can't keep from satirizing his hero's passion.
At Ieyasu’s command, Adams (the model for the hero of James Clavell’s novel Shogun) set up a shipyard in Ito and built Japan’s first two European-style ocean-going vessels.