damsel
Example Sentences
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Above us swallows dart through the air, Graeme takes a picture of a damsel fly and the brook to our side continues to babble.
From BBC • Aug. 4, 2024
A damsel, even if only in his imagination.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2024
Working from Andrew Lobel’s script, the director Michael Mohan delivers his damsel — a fresh-faced American, Cecilia, played by Sydney Sweeney — to the convent with unceremonious briskness.
From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2024
But also, it has a lot of humor surrounding it, because it's that damsel in distress kind of character.
From Salon • Jul. 29, 2023
“Because I’m a damsel in distress,” she said, “and you are a knight in whatever. A really dirty car. You know someone wrote Wash Me! on your rear windshield?”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
Vocabulary lists containing damsel
Holding Up the Universe
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"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
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