matinee
Example Sentences
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It entered Saturday’s matinee with losses in 11 of its last 12 games.
From Los Angeles Times
Most operagoers before a recent matinee of Richard Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung” were looking forward to escaping the madness of a global sporting spectacle for the next 5½ hours.
When the curtain rose on the Sunday matinee, unveiling three ghostly sisters draping the crimson Rope of Destiny over a gigantic broken head, the Olympic rings across the piazza could have been an entire world away.
She takes me to a matinee of The Nutcracker, and then we eat scones and mini sandwiches at the teahouse downtown.
From Literature
Even better, he has used his beauty not to become a matinee idol but to unsettle and surprise us, portraying characters whose handsomeness is very much the point but not the whole story.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
