nubile

Example Sentences

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This is the clunker: Confetti falls from the ceiling, and Odenkirk and his co-host David Cross are surrounded not by nubile women but by unkempt, grinning nerds with annoying questions.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2015

She points out a weird new kind of equality in that, instead of lessening the pressure on women to be young and nubile, Hollywood is simply heaping more on young male actors.

From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2015

Sun-loving saplings, blackberries and greenbriers wrapped their nubile tendrils around the opportunity, tangling with one another in thick knots as they scaled toward the light.

From Scientific American • Mar. 1, 2014

Greece's Queen Frederika organized a Mediterranean cruise for nubile royalty; it sparked the match between Spain's Prince Juan Carlos and her daughter, Princess Sophie.

From Time Magazine Archive

Adj. adolescent, pubescent, of age; of full age, of ripe age; out of one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged, manly, virile, adult; womanly, matronly; marriageable, nubile.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark