How to Use protagonist in a Sentence

protagonist

noun

• She was a leading protagonist in the civil rights movement.
• Milton Friedman is usually cited as the leading American protagonist of monetarism.
• And that's what Maya as a protagonist in the book goes through as well.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
• The episode ends with Abrams telling the show’s protagonist, Capt.
  — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
• Charles, who died in 1905, is a protagonist in The Hare with the Amber Eyes.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Mar. 2022
• And how does the movie end for our two protagonists, Lucy and Summer?
  — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 5 Nov. 2024
• The Batman, as a sort of theme song for the film’s brooding protagonist.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 7 June 2022
• But by the end of the film, our intrepid protagonist gains a new outlook on things.
  — Larry Stansbury, Good Housekeeping, 19 Sep. 2022
• One of the common themes of any hero’s journey is the period where the protagonist is in the woods.
  — George Howard, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• In the trailer, Ichiban, the floofy-haired protagonist of Like a Dragon, has washed up on a beach butt-ass-naked.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 11 June 2023
• The new game will feature a playable female protagonist for the first time.
  — Time, 25 Aug. 2023
• Killjoy's vengeful protagonists gave me a lot of new ideas about how to kill men.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 29 May 2023
• The Life List gets its name from its protagonist’s desire to do a bunch of the things her teenage self wanted to do.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
• The protagonist in this stage play, of course, is the traveler.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• Shaista, the main protagonist of the film, dreams of serving his country.
  — Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ, 24 Jan. 2022
• This Cold War mystery was now nearly 40 years in the past, but most of the protagonists still lived.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024
• Maybe the new protagonist could be the pedestrian who tried but failed to save her?
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 22 Dec. 2021
• The protagonist in this movie’s name is Noelle, but so is her on-again, off-again boyfriend’s new girlfriend.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2022
• But there is one man who has emerged as the campaign’s chief protagonist.
  — Claire Moses, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• One of them, Paul (the Badger) Brennan, emerged as the film’s protagonist.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2025
• Not to spoil anything, but the brother of the young protagonist turns into a chair.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 15 Nov. 2021
• The narrative and its chief protagonist were harder to find in the series between the Celtics and the Mavs.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
• The human drama of the protagonists, what brought them to trial in the first place, should constitute the essence of the action.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2023
• That’s apropos, given that the song’s protagonist was flipping all the wrongs in his life to right.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 24 July 2025
• The product is the protagonist and not to be confused with the sales engineer.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
• James, of course, will be the protagonist of next month’s 1883, which is set ten years before this flashback.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2021
• The film’s young protagonist learns about it all from files of newspaper cuttings of the time.
  — Debasish Roy Chowdhury, Time, 30 Mar. 2022
• Carey is the only one of them that doesn't have restaurants, so here nature is the protagonist.
  — Christin Parcerisa Vigueras, Travel + Leisure, 9 Nov. 2021
• Well, one of the lead protagonists in my book is inspired by myself.
  — Ana Osorno, Them, 14 Feb. 2025
• Re-authoring: Instead of simply being the protagonist of your money story, become the author.
  — Joyce Marter, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025