Example sentences for: heroine

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

  • Pro-sex difference feminists find their heroine under attack less from the left than from a scandalized news media elite.

  • The heroine of our nouvelle is Marie, a petite femme fatale from Paris.

  • All the heat on Currie makes Chatterbox think: Was the sprawling, seemingly loony essay by Henry Louis "Skip the Truth" Gates Jr. in last week's New Yorker (see Chatterbox for 3/3) actually a far more narrowly-targeted appeal than Chatterbox thought--specifically, an appeal for Currie to lie for Clinton, much as Rose Mary Woods (the heroine of Gates' essay) is thought to have lied for Nixon?...

  • As the game's ingenious designer, hunted by militant "realists" who want to stamp out virtual reality, Jennifer Jason Leigh is just the kind of drudge heroine that Cronenberg doesn't need.

  • Back in 1931, however, when Bodenheim was coming into his own as a literary maverick, New York publisher Horace Liveright issued his novel— Naked on Roller Skates . The title is a grabber, but the book itself would be anathema to feminists since it features a heroine who wishes to be beaten and degraded:


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