- plural of character.
characters
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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As in most of the director’s movies, the characters behave like preening betta fish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
It underscores the quiet emptiness of the lives of the play’s two characters, the nursing-home residents Fonsia and Weller, played by Debra Winger and Arliss Howard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Dr Jeremy Penner, who also travelled with the fragments, said the stars wanted to see where "the names of their characters were in the texts".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
“The Odyssey” is a made-up story, and the characters of a made-up story can look however we want them to.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
All of Gibby’s books had illustrations of the characters, but this had nothing of the sort.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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