- plural of character.
characters
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Take Pitt’s “F1: The Movie” and this year’s “Heart of the Beast,” where Pitt plays hypermasculine characters whose lives, actions and goals are defined by a relentless desire to come out on top.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Worse, all the other characters in the film talk just like him: charmless, frigid and quick to cut each other off with snippy corrections.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Both Edwards and Abdoo have appeared on that show as other characters and the whole point of “Ghosts” is that most of them can’t leave that property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
A lot of famous faces also pop up along the way—it’s casting as namedropping, Hollywood’s favorite pastime—but few of them register as fleshed-out characters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to my own, between absolute submission and determined revolt.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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