ROLE in a Sentence

Learn ROLE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
180 example sentences for ROLE, such as:
1. He will appear in the role of mediator.
2. Her defiance, her enjoyment of the role, ran out.
3. Jim Paton will assume the role of managing director.
4. She refused to take on the traditional woman's role.
5. He was absorbed in the role he had created for himself.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of ROLE
role
 n.  an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
 n.  what something is used for
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  Though she was thoroughly aware of his insincerity, she much preferred him in the role of the romantic blockader.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  I feared that 'visiting the sick and the imprisoned' was not your proper role.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  The role she enacted was that of a refined sweet Southern lady in distress.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  "But I just can't see you in the role of a guardian," and she laughed, hoping to disconcert him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
5  Miss Corby's role was jocularity: she always entered the conversation with a handspring.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
6  Rosedale in the paternal role was hardly a figure to soften Lily; yet she could not but notice a quality of homely goodness in his advances to the child.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
7  Her defiance, her enjoyment of the role, ran out.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  On the screen, in the role of a composer, appeared an actor called Eric Valour.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  Many of them were delicious in the role; one of them was the embodiment of every womanly grace and charm.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IV
10  Mrs. Pontellier was glad he had not assumed a similar role toward herself.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
11  Upon this Theodulia Ivanovna requested her guest to be seated, and accompanied the invitation with the kind of bow usually employed only by actresses who are playing the role of queens.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
12  Although in female society Anatole usually assumed the role of a man tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the spectacle of his power over these three women.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
13  To be in Anna Pavlovna's drawing room he considered an important step up in the service, and he at once understood his role, letting his hostess make use of whatever interest he had to offer.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI
14  "On the contrary, things seem satisfactory, ma cousine," said Pierre in the bantering tone he habitually adopted toward her, always feeling uncomfortable in the role of her benefactor.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVIII
15  He was absorbed in the role he had created for himself.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (155 in 11 pages)
1  She did not wish to leave him, but she could not accept her subservient role.
2  He will appear in the role of mediator.
3  These arguments may have been used as a rhetorical device to argue for a perpetuation of a United Nations role.
4  Mr Cross will assume the role of Chief Executive with a team of four directors.
5  Jim Paton will assume the role of managing director.
6  Mental attitude plays a far more important role in a person's success or failure than mental capacity.
7  Five out of the ten top role models for British teenagers are black.
8  She refused to take on the traditional woman's role.
9  Prevention also plays a central role in traditional medicine.
10  His wife refused to accept a traditional subservient role.
11  Some people looking after elderly parents have trouble with the role reversal involved.
12  My novel "The Rector's Wife" is being adapted for TV, with Lindsay Duncan in the title role.
13  The UK should find another weapon to fill the same role.
14  For his role as a young boy, he had to speak in a high falsetto.
15  The role will be the biggest challenge of his acting career.