coquetry

Example Sentences

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Attracted to Mandy’s curly hair, he sat beside her and, in an attempt at coquetry, opened an H.P.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2022

She is not at all prim and demure; on the contrary, she is genially expressive, the kind of woman who being devoid of coquetry behaves as she feels.

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2012

Her exquisite oval face — framed by short, lank, unwashed-looking hair — is as devoid of a diva’s coquetry as it is of makeup.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2012

The ladies' opening song, "We're Just Two Little Girls from Little Rock," is a smashing duet in which Russell's by-now natural bravado plays cleverly off, and reinforces, Monroe's coquetry.

From Time • Mar. 4, 2011

In that ruin of a house, she went about her coquetry, applying her dyes, her pomander and pouncet-box.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson