lioness

Example Sentences

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Mr. Schaller spent three years studying lions in Africa, once crawling through thorny thickets to count cubs a lioness had hidden there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

In Farsi, this term honors women who are strong, who stand up for their rights and who are trailblazers—courageous, brave and resilient, much like a lioness.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2024

The lioness was named after Hindu deity Sita while the lion was called Akbar, after the 16th Century Mughal ruler.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2024

Tea, 52, is a Massachusetts-to-San Francisco-to-Los Angeles transplant — and the literary lioness who created, among many other cultural lightning rods, the notorious Drag Queen Story Hour.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2023

Thisbe, although terrified of the lioness, was still more afraid to fail her lover.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton