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Starring

Star \Star\ (st[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Starred (st[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Starring.] To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle; as, a robe starred with gems. ``A sable curtain starred with gold.''
--Young.

Wiktionary
starring
  1. of, relating to, or in the manner of a star n. The action of the verb '''to star'''. v

  2. 1 (present participle of star English) 2 (''with a film as its subject'') That which has the specified actor or actors, especially those in lead roles, in its cast.

WordNet
star
  1. adj. indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance" [syn: leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)]

  2. [also: starring, starred]

star
  1. n. (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior

  2. someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz]

  3. any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night

  4. a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem

  5. an actor who plays a principal role [syn: principal, lead]

  6. a performer who receives prominent billing [syn: headliner]

  7. a star-shaped character * used in printing [syn: asterisk]

  8. the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub [syn: star topology]

  9. [also: starring, starred]

starring

adj. indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance" [syn: leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)]

star
  1. v. feature as the star; "The movie stars Dustin Hoffman as an autistic man"

  2. be the star in a performance

  3. mark with an asterisk; "Linguists star unacceptable sentences" [syn: asterisk]

  4. [also: starring, starred]

starring

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Usage examples of "starring".

India in the last days of the British rule, starring Jacqueline Bisset, Colin Lambert and Dame Peggy Ashcroft, directed by Julian Samuel.

There are now twenty books starring Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Bailiff Simon Puttock, with more to follow.

At our fifteenth class reunion there was Verrie Myers, now Hollywood star Veronica Myers, on the eve of the opening of her seventy-sixmillion-dollar film starring Jack Nicholson and Clint Eastwood, how in the Crystal one afternoon she, Ginger McCord and Mary Schultz spied on Dahlia Heart and her mysterious daughter.

Instead of starring in an epic photo, Barnett and Johnson would go down in history drenched in blood.

His high shrill voice was mocked, his whinnying laugh was copied, his erudition thought beyond a joke, his elderliness worthy of the starring role in a farce.

Andy, and he wrote upon a fresh notebook page and highlighted what he had written by inscribing a box around the words and starring it with an anemone-like asterisk.

Next, his favorites had been comedies especially those starring Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton.

Nice neighbors, the kind of folks that drop everything when they hear on the radio that the Red Cross is getting low on O, and none of them knew that Audrey Wyler, the quiet widow who lived between the Sodersons and the Reeds, was now starring in her own Hammer film.

This was Don't Know Up from Down, starring Somers' famous basketcase hero, John Clayter.

Chipping had given her the starring role as the heroine in tonight’s burletta, The Venetian Outlaw.

The sun had sunk half below the horizon and an evening frost was starring the puddles near the ferry, but Pierre and Andrew, to the astonishment of the footmen, coachmen, and ferrymen, still stood on the raft and talked.

Africa was a livery horse, looked after at the riding school, but owned by an actor named Bobby Cotterel, who’d bought her in a fit of enthusiasm after starring in Dick Turpin.

They may run test decipherments, simulating rotors wired in various ways and turning in various periods, and print out the test solutions at rates up to 600 lines per minute, starring those solutions that statistically most resemble plaintext.

Tony Alvarez is currently in pre-production on his next movie, Manic, starring Nick Logan and Lara Ivory.

Revenge had opened to critical acclaim and excellent box office, and Mick was currently directing a sixtymillion-dollar-budget action adventure movie starring Johnny Romano and Norman Barton as two mismatched cops.