Example sentences for: heroines

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

  • The environmental consequences of the industrial revolution are caricatured by a picture of a bear and a coyote tethered, like cliffhanger heroines, to a pile of logs in the path of an oncoming train.

  • The heroines of Career Girls crack jokes about the people turning up from their past as if on cue: What are the chances of that?

  • There's the messed-up sexuality of Antigua, the way girls are taught to be virgins while boys are encouraged to be careless and promiscuous; Kincaid's heroines have suffered from this sick training, and here we watch it slowly kill her brother.

  • Art collections, historic houses, and memorials to heroes and heroines can all be found here.

  • Cynthia Ozick, the American-born doyenne of contemporary observant Jewish writers, used to make her heroes and heroines refugees from the Nazis, struggling to fortify their shredded piety against the American profanity.


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