How to Use hero in a Sentence

hero

noun

• He has always been a hero to his son.
• She was a hero for standing up to the government.
• He returned from the war a national hero.
• His father has always been his hero.
• Roth himself plays the hero’s geek dad, who will get his just desserts.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Aug. 2026
• That’s a lot to put on someone who will be redeemed and is a hero down the road.
  — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026
• Countless stars over the years have become heroes to their team’s fan base.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 25 July 2026
• Like the hero’s journey, the arc of the heroine’s journey comes in stages.
  — Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
• The lineup is truly insane and full of my heroes and friends.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 24 Aug. 2026
• Its hero need not look, nor behave, like our expectations for a man of the past.
  — Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 21 July 2026
• Of course, the bag was the true hero piece that tied everything together.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 3 Aug. 2026
• Spidey and his friends have to round them up and our young hero has to make some hard decisions about his future.
  — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 Aug. 2026
• Our hero’s general vibe has been scaled back from nigh-saintly to merely very nice.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026
• Waiting for the ferry to go home, our black-eyed hero runs into Nancy.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026
• Sometimes this combination of forces works out well for the hero, and sometimes not so much.
  — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
• Let’s take a look at where each of our heroes and villains have landed and project into the future.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 10 July 2026
• The ingredient is also the hero in hair oils, lip scrubs, and rich-girl perfumes.
  — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 15 Aug. 2026
• With each successive leap, Stuart grows closer to the hero he’s meant to be.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026
• While Robert is angry with her and Juliette — the people’s hero!
  — Noel Murray, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2026
• Bowers notes that the story is about a man who is avoiding becoming a hero again and doesn’t feel like a hero.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
• The actor wrote that Panettiere was a real-life hero on the set of the sci-fi series, too.
  — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Aug. 2026
• Jake Cronenworth, the previous night’s walk-off hero, then got to a full count.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2026
• Fauci will be remembered as one of the great heroes of public health and modern medicine.
  — Alessandra Hirsch, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026
• Part of Louis’s function in the story is to be that Byronic hero.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 July 2026
• Salvias are heroes of container gardens with spikes of bold color over lush foliage.
  — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2026
• These shades of grey only deepen when lightsabers start to change colors, and unlikely heroes rise.
  — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 5 Aug. 2026
• The Misfits were my first introduction to punk rock and Danzig was my first rock and roll hero.
  — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 14 Aug. 2026
• Everyone would realize this quickly and she would be welcomed and lauded as a hero.
  — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
• After two weeks, the zoo called off its rescue efforts, and the city (and some birders) cheered for the bird hero that overcame the odds.
  — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 7 Aug. 2026
• Spider-Man is a hero rooted in nostalgia and, by design, is one that fans can relate to.
  — Sophia Morano, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026