Sample sentences for PROTAGONIST

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Definition

the principal character in a work of fiction

or more rarely:

an important supporter of someone or something

the famous protagonist, Harry Potter

an unlikely and unlikable protagonist
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Norman Mailer
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and...
Clifford Irving
There is a psychological school called "Behaviourists," of whom the protagonist is Professor John B. Watson...
Russell, Bertrand -- The Analysis of Mind
Ironically, the greatest triumph for both, protagonists was the time they were forced to cooperate during the goblin insurgence.
Eoin Colfer -- Artemis Fowl
Pattyn, the protagonist in this book, comes to love rural Nevada, where the spirit of the Old West lives on in its people.
Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
"I understand the protagonist is not doing very well," the professor said, grimly.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
If I had used Terminator Two, where the protagonist is a gun, I wouldn't have got those results.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
He was always one of the protagonists, but always, as in almost everything he did, a secret protagonist.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
She could have had no such experience at all, and there was neither reason for the scene nor any possible protagonist: he knew that she knew that.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
Downtrodden Americans gravitated strongly toward the Horatio Alger protagonist, the lowly bred Everyman who rises from anonymity and hopelessness.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit
And you look like a protagonist.
Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park
The three chief protagonists in the Washington drama of 1850 had been colleagues in Congress as far back as 1813.
John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
The protagonist was a Jew, and he was presented in a positive light.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
Helen, once a peripheral figure in these discussions, became the epicenter, instigator, and protagonist.
James McBride -- The Color of Water
After Aisha introduced the protagonist, Safiya provided the setting and central conflict, and Nademah took it from there.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
"Check this out," he said, and showed her a sequence from an action movie where, instead of Bruce Willis, the protagonist now seemed to be Francis Garaventa.
Dave Eggers -- The Circle
Besides, I thought, male novelists write about female protagonists all the time, so I will write about men.
Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony
It says Hiro Protagonist Last of the Freelance Hackers Greatest swordfighter in the world Stringer, Central Intelligence Corporation.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash

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