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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:

The Daily Telegraph of London reported Wednesday from Gnjilane in eastern Kosovo that American Navy and Army welders have repaired a statue of a Serb hero that was damaged by a mob of Albanian Kosovars.
Chandler's protest against the crude commercialization of the Times has made him "a latter-day hero to many newspaper journalists."
The hero (Gullette) is a scurvy genius obsessed with finding a 216 digit number that's somehow at the root of all life.
2) Kate Winslet's character "helps us understand that a woman's liberation is not a dated concept" (Karen Schoemer, Newsweek ). 3) The hero dies, and that's what we want to see.
At another, the mother of a teen-ager murdered while in Johnson's employ sobs, "People call you a hero ...