Example sentences for: maiden

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

  • It almost surely does mean `young woman,' but it can also mean a `girl,' `maiden,' `bride,' `youthful spouse,' a `woman of marriageable age' or `the age of puberty' (according to Gesenius-Robinson, my trusty 1888 Hebrew and English Lexicon).

  • GRETCHEN: Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden?

  • Griffith raised "crosscutting" to an art in his racist 1915 epic The Birth of a Nation , in which he jumped back and forth between "renegade Negroes" preparing to ravish a white maiden and Ku Klux Klanners galloping chivalrously to her aid.

  • To amplify just a little: Odette is a beautiful maiden trapped in the body of a swan.

  • She was 9 years old and a maiden.


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