queen
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“Oh, something changed in me, I felt it instantly / I had to hit the club so they could all see / Now I’m the dancing queen / F-f-f-far far from 17”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
On the second evening, the winners were dressed as characters from “Desperate Living,” complete with four men in leather attire carrying their friend, who was dressed like a queen on a litter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Lifestyle influencer Nara Smith, the couture-clad queen of tradwives, really wishes people would stop calling her a tradwife.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
“I would do anything to save my queen, little prince.”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
The revisionist approach of “Six Wives” has traveled beyond a scholarly audience: Portraits of the queens such as those in Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s musical “Six” owe much to Mr. Starkey’s perspective.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
David Starkey’s account of Henry VIII’s reign takes us, day by day, from Greenwich and Westminster to Hampton Court, alongside Henry and his successive queens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
In the warm, dry spring a glut of glorious foundresses – new queens – emerged from hibernation to start their nests alone, carrying out all the nest building, egg laying, foraging and brood rearing.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
"I found drag through queens who had featured in the American franchise," the 26-year-old says.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
And just ’cause we don’t look like beauty queens doesn’t mean we shouldn’t enter.”
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
Rxa8, and White soon to be queened pawn will help deliver checkmates in a couple of moves.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
I counted up five, six, ten different tones of shadow at different heights on the mountain slopes, and over all this realm of varied silence the moon queened it pensively.
From Dream Tales and Prose Poems by Constance Garnett
In the majority of games, either one or the other player remains at the close with a pawn, which has to be queened.
From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann
In semi-empty, if regal, state, she queened it for a time, her title barren, her real power in Egypt practically confined to her brain and to her charm.
From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune
She had a salon, something very distinguished; a social centre in which she queened it with great splendour.
From Tales Of Hearsay by Joseph Conrad
Black can’t be stopped from finally queening the charmed a-pawn, and White resigns the final position as mate is in the offing on 79.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
Kxg2 b5!, and White resigns as he has no pawn on b2 to stop Black’s a-pawn from queening after 49. axb5 a4.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
Ng7, and Black had to resign as the pawn has a clear path to the queening square after the queen checks run out.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
Bb6!, and now the White a-pawn has a clear path to the queening square.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 10, 2021
For the young woman, to her father’s and Miss Dent’s loving amusement, was proving herself adept in the art of queening it over a court of masculine admirers.
From The Delafield Affair by Florence Finch Kelly
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