Example sentences for: heroines

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

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • Her heroines have been fierce and admirable, but their struggle to be acknowledged has necessarily entailed a degree of self-dramatization--even, you might say, of selfishness.

  • But the heroines are actually insecure, weak, and define themselves in terms of men.

  • Although it pitches itself as an hommage to films such as Heathers , Carrie , and Clueless , critics say writer-director Darren Stein "can't decide whether he's satirizing his demon heroines' homicidal indifference or celebrating it" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). The film has only two things worth looking at: the eye-popping costumes and Rose McGowan, who has the part of the bitch-goddess down pat.


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