Below you will find example sentences with "lead role". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Lead Role in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: role
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 31.2 words

Words in this phrase

lead role

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • lead can mean: A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with l... Common word
  • role can mean: Dated spelling of role. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

accepted the lead role in qurbani 1× as a lead role in roland 1× do the lead role in a 1× for the lead role in the 1× in another lead role 1× in the lead role but it 1× in the lead role is set 1× in the lead role jones as 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

actor timothée chalamet 1× avatar the last 1× besides the fact 1× boutella 2107 s 1× examples include scream 1× filming has begun 1×

Common sentence endings:

a supporting role 1× amazing technicolor dreamcoat 1× another lead role 1× black hand 1950 1× both products engineering 1× college last friday 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

movie 7× actor 4× film 3× playing 3× last 3× include 2× glee 2× show 2× musical 2× jones 2× success 2× college 2×

Related phrases

vital role lead guitar prominent role crucial role starring role supporting role lead singer lead actress dominant role iconic role

Phrases around this combination

Just before it in the phrase index:

lead guitar lead actress layer protocol lay off lay eggs lay down

Just after it in the phrase index:

lead singer leader kim leader rachel leader sir leadership roles leadership skills

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

lead guitar lead singer lead actress

Same ending:

vital role prominent role crucial role starring role supporting role dominant role

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "lead role" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 31.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as accepted the lead role in qurbani, as a lead role in roland, movie, actor and film stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with vital role, lead guitar and prominent role, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with lead role

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Because of his music skills, Leighton landed a lead role, Kerry Tantillo said. (13 words)

The lead role was written as white, with a black cop in a supporting role. (15 words)

Finding success in a leading role on one TV show doesn't guarantee popularity or success in another lead role. (20 words)

Longer example sentences

Examples include Scream Queens (where the prize is a role in the Saw film series), The Glee Project (for a role on the television show Glee ) and Any Dream Will Do (the lead role in a revival of the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ). (46 words)

Boutella (2107’s “The Mummy” and “Atomic Blonde”) is pretty stiff in the lead role, but it’s also surely tough for any actor to shine in a Snyder movie, where all that stylized action — presented as slowly as possible — is the top priority. (44 words)

But what had me most concerned is that Ewan McGregor, who plays the lead role of Danny Torrance in Mike Flanagan’s new film, had previously made a good stab at killing off ‘’ in his embarrassingly ham-fisted role as Obi-Wan Kenobi. (43 words)

Example sentences (20)

Examples include Scream Queens (where the prize is a role in the Saw film series), The Glee Project (for a role on the television show Glee ) and Any Dream Will Do (the lead role in a revival of the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat ).

Howard’s recent credits include the lead role of Grover Jones on Hulu’s a recurring on Netflix’s as well as a lead role in Roland Joffe’s TV movie He’s repped by Paradigm and Randy James Management.

Finding success in a leading role on one TV show doesn't guarantee popularity or success in another lead role.

While the actor was earlier skeptical about playing the lead role, it was the channel’s executives who encouraged him to take on the role.

He became Red Bike’s operations manager, a key maintenance and troubleshooting role that he held for eight years, until he was promoted to the lead role in August 2022.

She recounted the rocky start to their relationship in the ’70s, when she declined a small role in his movie, but later accepted the lead role in Qurbani.

But what had me most concerned is that Ewan McGregor, who plays the lead role of Danny Torrance in Mike Flanagan’s new film, had previously made a good stab at killing off ‘’ in his embarrassingly ham-fisted role as Obi-Wan Kenobi.

LEAD ROLE: Jonah van Stekelenburg, 17 of Loch is thrilled to be playing the title role in Newhaven College’s Barnum – The Circus Musical that opens in Wonthaggi on May 3. He was hard at it at rehearsal at the college last Friday.

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In 1993, Kate Henshaw entered the world of acting when she auditioned for the lead role in the Nolywood movie “When the Sun Sets” and was handed the role.

In one of his movie in 2017 revenge drama Mom, the actor played a role of a spy the movie also starred Sridevi in lead role.

The lead role was written as white, with a black cop in a supporting role.

Kelly asked the studio for a straight acting role and he took the lead role in the early mafia melodrama: Black Hand (1950).

It is a fictionalised, farcical, partially animated retelling of the band's history and aftermath with McLaren in the lead role, Jones as second lead, and contributions from Vicious (including his memorable performance of "My Way") and Cook.

Actor Timothée Chalamet takes on the lead role in the movie, with a story that charts one of his earliest adventures when he first meets the Oompa Loompas.

And while he was an investor in both SpaceX and Tesla Motors, he was also heavily steeped in design, playing a lead role in both products' engineering.

Avatar: The Last Airbender finally began filming in 2021, with newcomer Gordon Cormier taking on the lead role of Aang, the eponymous Avatar who holds the fate of his world in his 12-year-old hands.

Because of his music skills, Leighton landed a lead role, Kerry Tantillo said.

Besides the fact that Kraven the Hunter is going to be featured in the video game as its primary villain, but a live-action film about the character starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the lead role is set to premiere this October.

Boutella (2107’s “The Mummy” and “Atomic Blonde”) is pretty stiff in the lead role, but it’s also surely tough for any actor to shine in a Snyder movie, where all that stylized action — presented as slowly as possible — is the top priority.

Filming has begun on ’s true-crime thriller, “Kiss of the Con Queen,” with real-life victim Eoin O’Brien (“The Last Full Measure”) taking the lead role.

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