Example sentences for: maidens

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • To the right is the Kaguraden, a hall where ceremonial dances are performed to honor the gods — and where, for a modest fee, couples can have Shinto wedding ceremonies performed, complete with flutes and drums and shrine maidens to attend them.

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

  • 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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