Example sentences for: matron

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

  • The distinction between a maid or matron of honor and bridesmaids is usually a different bouquet and walking down the aisle first.

  • I'd bought a cone of solid sugar and a boxOf tea for the saint himself, a felt-tip penFor his son, the saint-elect, and bubblegumFor a confusion of small fry--the five-year-oldAunt, say, and her seven-year-old nephew.Nothing for the women, of course, the tattooed,One-eyed, moon-faced matron, or her daughterWhose husband had long ago run awayAfter killing their newborn by pouringA bottle of cheap cologne down its throat.This was, after all, our first meeting.

  • They conjure up a flip-flop-clad matron in a housedress, cigarette dangling from her mouth, slapping a metal tray in front of a sullen husband at the dinner table.

  • The British often spell it tchah , and I wondered whether some British matron in Harrod's wasn't even now saying cha for the same reason.

  • Your best friend/replacement matron of honor, herself, lives out of state.


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