damsel
Example Sentences
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In Act 2, they reprise the song, this time as the husbands of two of those damsels, Rapunzel and Cinderella.
From Washington Post
Recent research has shown that the egg is no patient damsel but a dynamic cell that undergoes brutal competition and draws flailing sperm into its orbit.
From New York Times
And so even as she has to traipse through the jungle in an impractical sequined jumpsuit as purple as her prose, Loretta is hardly a damsel in distress.
From Los Angeles Times
I think when everything swung toward the very masculine action-adventure, women got relegated to the arm piece or damsel in distress.
From New York Times
One way or another, the damsel is distressed, a figure that “KIMI” revisits through a constellation of ideas about technology, surveillance, control and agency.
From New York Times
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