Example sentences for: ingénue

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • There's also a stock ingénue (Susan Lynch) who loves the town's endearing pig farmer (James Nesbitt) but won't marry him because he smells so bad--and I'm not oversimplifying.

  • For Mamet, however, the core of the piece is Winslow's daughter, a snootily progressive ingénue and a suitable romantic foil for the conservative Morton.


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