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

From Joan’s sincere coquetry at the Avon lunch, to Peggy’s surveillance techniques and expert game-playing, Joan and Peggy leaned over so hard they threatened to overturn the whole damn office.

From Time • Jun. 3, 2013

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 second toilette is nothing but a game invented by coquetry," observed Louis-Sébastien Mercier.

From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 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