starlet

Example Sentences

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But he could not make the transition from academy starlet to first team at Liverpool.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

We’re more taken by the scenes in which her father, Stellan Skarsgård’s faded filmmaker Gustav, dusts off his moth-eaten charisma to charm Elle Fanning’s Hollywood starlet into doing his new project.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

Playing a starlet as a dummy would be a cliché; Ms. Fanning’s acting choices, in harmony with the rest of the film, are delicate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

It captures the swagger, charisma and impulsiveness with which Godard convinced financial backers and Hollywood starlet Jean Seberg to make a debut feature that had neither a script nor a workable filming schedule.

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

They were not like words at all, but like soap bubbles, or like the kisses blown around by a starlet in a motorcade.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen