Example sentences for: maiden

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

  • In his Historia de Nueva España, Bernardino de Sahagún narrates that it was traditional for the parents of a young Aztec maiden to formally acknowledge her passage into womanhood.

  • According to Ovid, when Zeus first saw this nymph, he said, "Maiden, you are fit for [Zeus] himself to love, and will make someone divinely happy when you share his couch."

  • He has cast himself as a prankish Jew who wins the heart of a pretty maiden (Nicoletta Braschi); fathers a cute, skinny boy; and gets carted off by the Nazis to a death camp.

  • On Wan Chai’s Bowen Road, Maiden’s Rock, also called Lover’s Rock, is the gathering place for the annual Maiden’s festival.

  • She was 9 years old and a maiden.


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