Hero in a sentence as a noun

When I was at high school, he was my hero and role model.

But another part of him doesn't want to do that, which is why he loses motivation and doesn't always end up behaving the way a hero-CEO might.

I've been saying it for a while now, I'm hopeful that we're going to see some very positive reforms in 2014 or 2015, as well as an eventual hero's welcome for Snowden.

If anyone ever mentions the word "heroic" again and there isn't a burning building involved, I will start looking for new employment immediately.

The psychopath I met also has a strong motivation to make an impact in the world, to be known almost as a hero, no doubt to satisfy desires of ego and power.

He only outed himself as a giant jerk after he had a company that could afford to have a huge turnover, and he had a pile of minions that hero-worshiped him no matter what he did.

"Fighting" here, the battle between the heroic pursuit of accomplishment on the one hand and the "insidious machine called quo" on the other, is just the author reporting his own conflicts about what he wants to do.

We belong to the Z generation but in order to talk to other generations we have to use common references and avoid cats or internet memes or super hero folklore for what it matters.

Hero definitions

noun

a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain"

noun

the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem

noun

someone who fights for a cause

See also: champion fighter paladin

noun

Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)

See also: Hero Heron

noun

(classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god

noun

(Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her

See also: Hero

noun

a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States