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Example sentences for: ingénue

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

Marie recently made her début as an ingénue in a risqué, avant-garde cinéma-vérité movie which used advanced montage techniques, was hailed as a tour de force and became a succés de scandale.
The ingénue, Leonora, is drinking again, toasting herself in the mirror and praising the loveliness of Nature--a Nature that will, of course, destroy her.
He gently seeks the assurance of a tipsy ingénue (the tremulous Shirley Henderson) that her "little weakness" will not re-emerge.
But since that ingénue is the meltingly gorgeous Claire Forlani, it would take someone more superheroic than I to register a protest.
I might have complained that Stiller and Garofalo--who instantly rub each other the wrong way--don't end up falling in love, and that the film pairs Stiller instead with a conventional ingénue.