Example sentences for: maidens

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

  • The caryatids — female figures used as pillars — are thought to represent the Arrephoroi (maidens who attended to the goddess Athena and performed rituals in the sanctuary and the temple), as they all originally carried libation vessels in their hands.

  • Burne-Jones studied briefly with Rossetti, and his early work, with its intense floral patterning--the flowers on the ground blending with the flowers in the maidens' costumes--could easily be mistaken for Rossetti's.

  • How could a serious European artist, a contemporary of Degas' and Manet's, spend his time filling medieval ghost towns with somnambulant knights and maidens?

  • He which hath no stomach to this fight, And hideth in the tall grass, like a damn girl, Let him depart; I'll get him a job at CNN, Where mine appalling comments about the dusky Moor And olive-skinned Levantine (and working maidens fair, And--no one's really glommed onto this yet-- My disparagement of those men of right good male fellowship, Who doth hoard original-cast albums of Broadway musicals, If ya know what I mean) serves but to raise my fees on Crossfire . Forsooth, 'tis a rich scam!

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


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