maidenly

Example Sentences

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And it's adapted with a heightened, soap opera-y sense of dramatic irony conveyed through longing glances, annoyed walking, and maidenly sighing.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2021

Whether playing the ecstatic tissue-tearing child, the photographing parent, the maidenly aunt or avuncular uncle, we are never more “literary” than we are on Christmas morning.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2017

At the end of the 1991 cartoon, when the enchantment is lifted, he looks incomplete, vaguely embryonic—a smooth-skinned creature with maidenly bedhead and a tentative smile.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017

Perhaps executives at Wal-Mart are indeed right this minute fanning themselves in maidenly horror at the cover image of West's forthcoming album.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2011

To him Sara White exuded “an intense something concealed by an air of supreme innocence and maidenly reserve.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson