Example sentences for: matrons

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

  • Clearly, the term lawn , with its 19th-century connotation of society matrons batting a powder puff, should be deleted from the titles of all official national tennis organizations.

  • With perverse anti-insight, Hoffman has updated the play to a sunny, atmospherically untroubled Tuscany in the 19 th century and has filled his frames with scampering street urchins and matrons kneading dough.

  • The center of the capital is a kaleidoscope of golden rooftops, multicolored costumes, steep temple steps layered with wares like market shelves, country women hawking produce spread on the streets, sari-draped matrons placing flower petals on altars to grimacing gods, the sudden eruption of a band of musicians or a herd of goats across your path, the scent of marigold garlands and of dumplings fried in oil, the constant jangling of bicycle bells and rickshaw horns.

  • A sensitive, old-fashioned youth, failing to survive in the hurlyburly of English popular music, eking out a living crooning sentimental nostalgia to elderly matrons on the European night club circuit.


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