Example sentences for: boudoir

How can you use “boudoir” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He is starting to think long-term, but my reservation is that he is iffy in the boudoir department.

  • She waits for him in her boudoir, en deshabillé, wearing a negligée, through which her toile d'or lingerie, particularly her brassiére, can be seen.

  • Madame Charpentier, wife of a publisher, reclines in her Japanese-style boudoir.

  • The cave, 54 m (177 ft) long, 15 m (49 ft) high, and 30 m (98 ft) wide, is believed (because of the man-made niches) to have been a nymphaeum, a kind of watery boudoir for the Emperor Tiberius, who retired to Capri in the first century a.d. and built a villa directly above.

  • Its boudoir is an entire forest, symbolizing Nature itself, where mortals and fairies, regals and bumpkins, make love and war, where passion becomes arbitrary and paramours interchangeable; and its last act is a riotously bungled tragedy-within-a-comedy (a celebratory performance by a troupe of "rude mechanicals") that's an ironic comment on the trivial pursuits that have preceded it.


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