How to Use heroine in a Sentence

heroine

noun
  • The town remembered her as the heroine of the flood and erected a statue in her honor.
  • What’s more, each heroine seemed to grow on her journey to love.
    — Grace Aldridge august 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • One of the guests is found dead, and our heroine must kick into sleuthing mode?
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Sep. 2023
  • In my mind, Choute is the heroine of the story.
    — Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
  • After all, what kind of heroine would leave before the roof caves in?
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 26 Mar. 2024
  • But in the sequel, the drama doesn’t just play out in the heroine’s head.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2024
  • Leonora is unique among Pym heroines.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The vibe for blonde hair colors this season is less surfer girl, more rom-com heroine.
    — Fiona Embleton, Glamour, 10 May 2026
  • The heroine and the film are both agreed that the world is a better place without any of them.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Now every nubile deb has her eye on him, and our poor heroine doesn’t seem to stand a chance.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 16 May 2024
  • And then there's the great strength of the survivor girl, the heroine running through all of them.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • My heroine is married to an elderly man who has had three dead wives.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • As time passes, camp life emerges as a social trial for our heroine.
    — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 18 May 2026
  • Jonas does not make a tragic heroine of the long-suffering wife.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Of all the sisters, Jo is the one most readers’ choose as their heroine.
    — Eliza Berman, Time, 5 Dec. 2019
  • When the heroine makes a wish, she's answered by a cosmic force named Star.
    — Jillian Pretzel, Peoplemag, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Some of opera’s greatest heroines have stories that unfold over the course of three acts.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
  • If that is not a feminist dream, then the movement needs to make more room for heroines like you.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • Parents-to-be who love to read are opting for names that sound like a hero or heroine from one of these books.
    — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 30 Dec. 2025
  • His heroine, however, has lost a little bit of hers – by telling a lie to her best friend.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
  • The scene fades, the credits roll, and next week our heroine will return, unchanged.
    — Mikayla Dawson, Women's Health, 23 June 2023
  • If that isn’t a feminist dream, then the movement needs to make more room for heroines like you.
    — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 26 June 2023
  • Take a film’s heroine, for example.
    — Blake Simons, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Supercow, its cow-as-heroine mascot, was known around the state.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2026
  • But much like its own heroine, High Desert has a way of making too much feel just right.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
  • Judith is the heroine of the story of her murder of the evil Holofernes.
    — Lara Jo Hightower, Arkansas Online, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Its first sentence makes clear that her heroine is alone in an isolated rural place.
    — Literary Hub, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Here’s our heroine, doing the tough work (with a big dash of magic) to make things right in Oz.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Our heroine is left for dead as Tyler disappears into the woods.
    — Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • So what does that mean, exactly, for fans of the show and its titular heroine?
    — Charlie Mason, TVLine, 18 Sep. 2025

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