Example sentences for: maidens

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

  • When his women unexpectedly wake up, like Galatea in his "Pygmalion" series or the spurned lover emerging from the almond tree in (1881-82, Merseyside), it's often disconcerting, and the men look as though they should have let sleeping maidens lie.

  • In return for a donation to the shrine, the shrine maidens (miko), dressed in the typically Shinto outfit of bright-red pleated skirts with white blouses, will perform one of the dances.

  • What is't to me, when you yourselves are cause, If your pure maidens fall into the hand Of hot and forcing violation?

  • Walk around the chestnut and lime trees, and admire Aristide Maillol’s 18 sensual statues of nymphs and languorous maidens, a few of which are coquettishly half concealed behind a miniature maze.

  • Abingdon means Æbba's hill; Boston means Bōtwulf's stone; Conventry means Cofa's tree; Leighton Buzzard is named for the Busard family, who owned land here in the 13th century; Lichfield means open land near Letocetum, the latter name itself meaning gray wood; Maidstone probably means stone of the maidens (i.e., where the girls gathered); Morpeth, like it or not, means murder path; Redruth, a Cornish name, means red ford; Southend arose at the southern end of Prittlewell parish; Westminster is west of the City of London.


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