Sentence examples for were roles from inspiring English sources
noun
A character or part played by a performer or actor.
- My neighbor was the lead role in last year's village play.
What followed were roles in other new plays, by writers like Peter Hedges and Mr. Lucas.
Buckles said there were roles in which fluency in English was not a necessity.
There were roles in the TV series Smiley's People and war dramas such as Who Dares Wins and Wild Geese II, generally as a baddie.
There were roles as Channing Tatum's love interest in 21 Jump Street and Toni Collette's rebellious daughter in the Showtime series United States of Tara.
Notable among his 40 film leads were roles in Orson Welles's Touch of Evil (1958) and the Steven Spielberg made-for-TV thriller Duel (1971).
Among his notable stage performances were roles in High Tor (1937), Liliom (1940), Playboy of the Western World (1946), and Major Barbara (1956).
Walt Frazier and Earl Monroe were role models.
They were role models to us.
"They were role models and..
