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How to use maidenly in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word maidenly? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Pieta's voice was of a contralto color, and though not very strong, it was maidenly and soft.
Raven felt the heat rise again within her, and the blush that crept to her cheeks this time had nothing to do with maidenly modesty.
I tried my best to look maidenly and modest, as I should, though I was near to bursting with pride and excitement.
The queen was beyond the blush of maidenhood, but dressed in maidenly green like the first hesitant uncurling feathery buds of April.
Well, I feel pretty and maidenly without bounding my tresses.
This maidenly approach on the part of the modern biographer has something refreshing about it.
He will imagine a radiant recovery, Nettie's acquiring a tall and maidenly body, their life together.
Robyn stood back and clasped her hands together, miming maidenly awe.
There's nothing maidenly about them either, as they charge about, tossing migraine-heavy heads, bare feet slapping the floor, to take up poses suggestive of coitus or childbirth.
Maidenly honour is tricked into a fatal moment of weakness which the ballad-monger, as though with a sly wink, seems actually to condone.
Examples from Classical Literature
Color has not yet come into her maidenly days, nor violence of opinion into her womanly years.
But the grey in this case was not so pure, nor were the straightness and the slenderness so maidenly.
Lips meet lips in soul-kiss that cause the maidenly head to hide under elbow in confusion.
And where was the knight who should claim her innocent and maidenly heart?
Viviette alone in her maidenly splendour, he could have fought it down.
The maidenly month of April makes little difference to us here.
Who looked with contempt on girls and disdained their maidenly advances!
I love thee too, but I think it not maidenly to kiss thee till I'm asked.
It was the traditional maidenly interrogation, and he felt ashamed of himself for finding it singularly childish.
With her delicate little features and her pale face she looked cold and maidenly.
Her voice was calm, her enunciation a little slow, but perfectly distinct, and she stood before him as she spoke, in the simplest and most maidenly attitude.
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