Example Sentences

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His incidents are of unheroic illness, and blundering delicacy, and helplessness.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2021

Eventually bin Laden died a unheroic death, surrounded by his wives and kids in a squalid suburban compound in Pakistan.

From Salon • Sep. 13, 2021

I had made fiction of us, made heroes of very unheroic people.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2021

I’m interested in the ways that heroic language is deployed by people who are very unheroic in order to create a heroic response or to create a protective response in society.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2020

For a moment she allowed her full glance to rest on the unheroic figure crouching by the fire, and Dick Wantele felt keenly vexed with himself.

From Jane Oglander by Lowndes, Marie Belloc