Example sentences for: heroines

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

  • 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.

  • Her fictional heroines can name every indignity they've been subjected to since birth, and because they are usually bright young women from troubled families in poor island backwaters such as Antigua or Dominica, their list of injuries is long.

  • (Interestingly, the Tamils who have renamed practically every public landmark, road, and bylane after their national and regional heroes and heroines prefer to retain “Poes Garden,” the name of the locality to which the Chief Minister's official residence belongs.)

  • 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?

  • Many intense, solitary, and impassioned heroines of fiction and history, wearing black dresses in illustrative art, helped set the tone for hosts of modern temptresses in black.


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