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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:

Viseu is a dignified and historic town, supposedly home to Viriathus, the Lusitanian hero who organized the opposition to the Roman invasion of 147 bc.
Liberals called him the greatest hero in a century of jurisprudence.
Pundits are wowed by his basic American-ness: "an American original" (Mark Shields, NewsHour ; Tim Russert, Meet the Press ); "an honest American" (Shields, Capital Gang ); "a genuine American patriot" (Hunt, Capital Gang ); "a genuine American hero" (Dan Quayle, Fox News Sunday ); and "the Bulworth of his generation" (Clarence Page, ABC's This Week ).
The party still feebly pushes secularism: It just inaugurated an annual Hero of Atheism award.
My hero, though, is Richard Heseltine, the chairman of the Overseas Investment Trust, who resigned earlier this month in opposition to the business plan forced on him by his superiors.