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
• 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
• The film’s young protagonist learns about it all from files of newspaper cuttings of the time.
  — Debasish Roy Chowdhury, Time, 30 Mar. 2022
• Well, one of the lead protagonists in my book is inspired by myself.
  — Ana Osorno, Them, 14 Feb. 2025
• That's a good quality in an adult and in a protagonist.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2022
• Those aspects linked to the protagonist Maomao in my view.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 27 Nov. 2023
• But, in the early 2000s, most protagonists in this genre were white women.
  — H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 8 Jan. 2025
• It was set in jail and one of her protagonists had these impulses too.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• The show’s protagonist, Jess (Megan Stalter), has little reason to stick around.
  — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
• Seti is its protagonist, and she won’t be silenced without standing up for herself.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 July 2025