Example sentences for: maidens

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

  • A tomb with a steeply inclined entrance, that of Princess Yong Tai, has a mural which is full of intriguing details depicting the court maidens attending the princess (who was to die at the age of 17).

  • Disney's animation studio rebounds from a series of disappointments ( Pocahontas , Hercules ) with a feature based on a Chinese legend about a cross-dressing female warrior, winning praise for featuring a proto-feminist heroine instead of its usual submissive maidens.

  • The history of the myriad painful fads women have subjected themselves to over the years--iron maidens, rubber girdles, breast binding--may help remind viewers what all that '60s bra-burning was about.

  • In the story of Briar Rose (or Sleeping Beauty) he found a perfect theme, with knights and maidens and kings and queens all asleep amid the flourishing underbrush.

  • The images were soft, vague studies of moony, "timeless" subjects, maidens in dappled fields and the like.


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