Example sentences for: heroine

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

  • The eponymous heroine was born and raised in Quincy, Ill., and orphaned, just as the novel opens, at the age of 18.

  • E ntrapment is built around the object that is Zeta-Jones, who, as the headstrong heroine of last year's The Mask of Zorro , did a dazzling job of staring down Antonio Banderas.

  • Our heroine punishes herself because she yielded to temptation, a temptation that was probably more alluring in the early 1980s than it is today.

  • Sometimes, as in the case of the 19-year-old protagonist of Lucy , a Kincaid heroine gets so fed up that she moves to the United States (as Kincaid did, at 17)--but there she only finds more fuel for her anger in the pitying stares of unconsciously racist white liberals.

  • The paper added, "If Mr. Clinton survives as something of a victim through all this, Monica Lewinsky survives as something of a heroine.


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