Example sentences for: maidens

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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