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Example sentences for: heroes

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Ajami's heroes are figures such as Egypt's novelist Naguib Mahfuz, the Palestinian academic Sari Nusseibah, and the tragic Hawi--men of integrity imbued with "the old, confident spirit" of cosmopolitanism and an openness to the Western ideas that led to the Arab awakening in the first place.
Among the heroes, we don't have to worry about the principled male scientist, the dynamic female animal behaviorist, or the stowaway children.
He and Serra are two of Mallorca’s greatest sons and heroes — they have both been beatified, and sainthood seems sure to follow.
His heroes don't go mutely; their souls scratch and kick.
See Folk Heroes