How To Use Adventuress In A Sentence
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Woman that adventured were adventuresses, and the connotation was not nice.
Chapter 6
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Vogue editor, tastemaker, adventuress, she exploded with style and joie de vivre.
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For the uninitiated, Charley's an Edwardian adventuress who stowed away on an airship, the R101, and was rescued by The Doctor just before it blew up in flames.
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In 1871 an English adventuress named Lucy Walker became the first woman to summit the mountain.
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I perceived her, under the heavy procession of his words, a figure of astounding romance, an adventuress incomparable, a Polynesian bacchante.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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The rumour-mongers have portrayed me as a hard-bitten political adventuress devoid of all human feeling.
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woman who would never behave like an adventuress, but unfortunately this assumption was difficult to support with hard facts.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Mrs. Gunning was openly called the Adventuress, and it was a favourite sport with some ladies to imitate her Irish accent and carnying ways with those she would please; and doubtless Maria angled a little too openly for her lord.
The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
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Inevitably her exploits were exaggerated and she became known as an adventuress .
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It's instructive to see her as the aristocratic adventuress in the 18 th-century potboiler The Affair of the Necklace.
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She was a homely woman from a small town, not some wild-eyed adventuress who could take on the world.
HEAVEN, TEXAS
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In a time when the propriety of a woman could be put into question simply by an unchaperoned encounter with a man who was not her husband or immediate male relative, Wallis Simpson was seen as the worst of all kind of women, an ‘adventuress.’
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Fanny, she discovered, was a pioneer woman, a legendary dynamo and singular adventuress.
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It was hard to believe Lana had once thought of her as glamorous, even an adventuress.
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More to the point, the great adventuresses of French fiction usually had a clear idea of what they were up to.
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I retorted that of course no adventuress could be taken seriously unless she wore a pink trouser-suit and talked with an American accent.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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The first film was dumb fun - a computer game-inspired take-off on the Indiana Jones series with Angelina Jolie bringing everyone's favorite PC adventuress, Lara Croft, to life.
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She loved him as true women love, with that sublime self-sacrifice which only desires the happiness of the thing beloved; yet a kind of insensate rage stirred for once in her gentle soul to think that the mere sight of a strange woman with dark eyes, -- a woman whom no one knew anything about, and who was by some people deemed a mere adventuress, -- should have so overwhelmed this man whose genius she had deemed superior to fleeting impressions.
Ziska
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Now you're a space-suited adventuress battling your way toward Earth.
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At least Prince Hektor always got what he wanted and the girl of his dreams fawned at his feet, despite her claims of being an independent, man-hating adventuress.
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No question, she is indomitable, a chronic adventurer - adventuress, if you wish.
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Fabre went on to attack women's clubs, claiming, to much applause, that they were composed of ‘adventuresses, wandering female knights, emancipated girls, and amazons'.
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When evaluated from this perspective, it's easier to see her less as an adventuress and more as a dichotomy.
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The rumour-mongers have portrayed me as a hard-bitten political adventuress devoid of all human feeling.
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This is a quandary that never traps veteran adventuress Dervla Murphy, in a new edition of her epic 1983 trek through the Peruvian Andes with her small daughter and a mule.
