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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:

Every culture has a single historical hero, a visionary credited with planting the seeds from which cultural, aesthetic, and ethical values flourished.
Many Arabs would rather relive the glory days of the 1956 Suez crisis, when the great hero of Arab nationalism, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, withstood an invasion by Britain, France, and Israel.
The first of these is the possessive, the second represents the vowel of is . (The Joyce title is typical of the author's linguistically inventive but allusive style, and is actually a compound of two proper names: that of Finn MaCool, the Irish folk-hero, and Tim Finnegan, the hero of a music-hall ballad, who sprang to life in the middle of his own wake.)
Massive spears thrust toward the sky in this monument to Antonio Maceo, a hero of the war of independence, who is seen riding triumphantly.
Ah, you quoted a lyric by Sondheim, my personal hero.