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Example sentences for: heroine

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

The heroine of our nouvelle is Marie, a petite femme fatale from Paris.
Some blast the film because it uses a child's death "as merely the first manipulation of many meant to engender sympathy for its heroine" and call it "fraudulent in every detail" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). Others deny these charges, saying the movie has "an emotional depth and psychological acuity that place it in a category by itself" (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ). Most concur in their estimation of Weaver's work: "emotionally direct … lovely, warm" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). (Click here to read a review of the Jane Hamilton novel that was the basis of the film.)
Pro-sex difference feminists find their heroine under attack less from the left than from a scandalized news media elite.
In the world of You've Got Mail , the heroine might lose her shop, but she gets to keep her Upper West Side apartment and to continue to frequent Zabar's and Starbucks, and her employees are happily hired by the competition.
The heroine of Lucy rejects the meek role that life tries to assign her, announcing, "I wanted to have a powerful odor and would not care if it gave offense."