How To Use Godmother In A Sentence
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Those friendships have continued: I'm godmother to one of my friend's two children, and our children are friends.
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According to Guyanese tradition, a female child will have two godmothers and one godfather, and a male child will have two godfathers and one godmother.
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They prance and strut in front of the mirrors, as if their fairy godmother has waved her wand and said: ‘You shall go to the ball!’
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The fairy godmother waved her magic wand over the cabbages and they turned into horses.
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Around her neck she wore a necklace of amber beads that she had inherited from her Great Aunt Caroline, who had also been her godmother.
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This was the freest and most fully resolved work I've seen from her, and I'm certain that Farrell's serving as godmother to it is no coincidence.
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At age 83, she continues with us, strong as ever, and even more honored by her beloved community of poets - especially the community of black poets to whom she is a pioneering example and godmother.
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(She has been called a transcendentalist, a shaman, ‘the godmother of punk’ and a Sufi poet).
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If the stepchildren are very young, think of yourself as an aunt or godmother figure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fairy godmother: You look so lovely, my dear.
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We are invited to join Cinders and the loveable Buttons as they take on two very ugly sisters and a bossy stepmother and win, with a little help from a Fairy Godmother and a lot of magic.
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The fairy godmother's magic charm turned Cinderella's rags into a beautiful gown.
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S.O.B. was godmother to both boys and assumed a parental role towards them.
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Every little "greaser" on the ranch adored the Señorita, and she was godmother to half the babies born on the place.
Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
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You know, I want to embrace the word godmother so it doesn't have that connotation and sort of - oh, it means you're an old spinster.
Joan Jett Rumbles Back with 'Sinner'
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The fairy godmother's magic charm turned Cinderella's rags into a beautiful gown.
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And as he sat in moody silence she stole away, and begged some good broth from her godmother, who had always enough and to spare.
The Fairies and the Christmas Child
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She gleefully portrays the dual roles of Rose's flaky adoptive mother Claire and Rose's native godmother Maddie.
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Mary had an excellent relationship with Marguerite de France, who was more than twice her age and godmother to the Dauphin, whom Mary was to marry in 1558.
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You can name just one godparent, or two godmothers or godfathers.
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Before Patti Smith earned the name the godmother of punk, she was - well, that's the subject of her memoir, "Just Kids," which is a National Book Award Finalist and is out next week in paperback.
Patti Smith And Robert Mapplethorpe: Kindred Spirits
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Princess Dashkov was his godmother, and Potyomkin his godfather.”
The Brothers Karamazov
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Cinderella's fairy godmother helped her go to the ball.
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The oldest girl and I are the same age, and she's godmother to my oldest daughter.
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According to Guyanese tradition, a female child will have two godmothers and one godfather, and a male child will have two godfathers and one godmother.
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The fairy godmother's magic charm turned Cinderella's rags into a beautiful gown.
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Until her fairy godmother comes along, Tautou continues pursuing her destiny - which by all portents, should prove to be fabulous.
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She's had two more children since then… and I am godmother to them all.
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The post-revolution committee to revise the constitution is all male, and El Saadawi, who has been called the godmother of Egyptian feminism, was angry.
The New Yorker
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I am a good friend and when my godson is born I am guaranteed to be the best godmother in the history of the world.
I Mean You.
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She'd been a bridesmaid at their wedding, and was now a godmother of their recently-born firstborn child Jacob.
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The duty of a godmother is to make you learn your catechism.
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They tried also to comfort her by saying in pantomime that some day her godmother might send them to bear her home again, and lift the enchantment that bound her.
The Golden Apple Tree
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Christine always wanted children and so I decided to make her godmother to my second daughter, Grace.
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In time the viscountess became known as the godmother of the ballet, and she, more than any other person, pushed the career of Raymundo de Larrain.
The Rockefeller and the Ballet Boys
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Dubbed the "godmother" of consumer-driven health care by Money magazine, Herzlinger notes that boomers as a generation are busier and better educated than previous generations and not shy about voicing their unhappiness.
Doctors Making Housecalls: 8 Ways Post 50s Are Transforming Health Care
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She is godmother to Robinson's youngest son, Aubrey.
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She jokes that by the age of eight she was already a godmother to many, making promises about what she would send for them when she finally got to America.
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The longest, hottest night of the year brought out a crowd probably not unfamiliar with the Sixties heyday of musical protest, and they worshipped at the altar of the godmother of the art, Joan Baez.
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She was a godmother to several children born in the village, and she taught in the Sunday School and she did a great deal.
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You can name just one godparent, or two godmothers or godfathers.
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Just then, the fairy godmother appeared, waved her magic wand, and turned the blades of grass into stems and leaves to hide the cups from the angry queen.
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And anyway, isn't the role of the godmother to oversee the child's spiritual welfare?
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Joan Brown's irreverent explorations of the conflicted roles associated with femininity make her seem as well a kind of godmother to contemporary Bad Girl artists such as Karen Kilimnik and Nicole Eisenman.
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I was dreadfully shocked at the burning of the two Jews, and the honest Biscayan who married his godmother; but how great was my surprise, my consternation, and concern, when I beheld a figure so like Pangloss, dressed in a sanbenito and mitre!
Candide
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Transplanted New Yorker Becky Wasserman, also known as the godmother of Burgundy, told me a story about entertaining a client at a restaurant in Bouilland, a few miles up the road from Savigny.
The Death-Defying Values of Savigny-lès-Beaune
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Her godmother scooped out the inside, leaving nothing but the rind; she then struck it with her wand, and the pumpion instantly became a fine coach gilded all over with gold.
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk
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Canadian author Naomi Klein, the godmother of the anti-globalisation movement, considers the way marketing handles the protests against corporate power.
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Fairy Godmother: Well, well, hopping, my dear. We can't waste time.
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I said, " Oh, dear godmother, tell me, pray do tell me, did mama die on my birthday?
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'And then you'll come up to aunt's room -- I call godmother aunt now -- and take tea with Gorman and us all.'
Lord Kilgobbin
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She's the Fairy Godmother and I can exclusively reveal that she DID do all the singing.
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Godmother: Nothing, my dear Oh, now you don't really mean that.
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She heads a classy cast, with soprano Eglise Gutierrez in the ditsy coloratura role of Fairy Godmother and the mezzo Alice Coote in rapturous, unblemished voice, a stupendous Prince Charming.
Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
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The company played fairy godmother by deciding to sponsor the club for a further five years.
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We took him away, and cleaned him - the removal of vast amounts of dirt did quite a lot, and when the Godmother asked us to come by today, I finally bestirred myself to get out the acrylics, and poodlefake.
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M. le Comte's guests followed closely on the triumphant bridegroom's heels: M. le préfet, fussy and nervous, secretly delighted at the idea of affixing his official signature to such an aristocratic _contrat de mariage_ as was this between M.le. de Cambray de Brestalou and M. Victor de M.rmont, own nephew to M.rshal the duc de Raguse; M.dame la préfète, resplendent in the latest fashion from Paris, the Duc and Duchesse d'Embrun, cousins of the bride, the Vicomte de Génevois and his mother, who was Abbess of Pont Haut and godmother by proxy to Crystal de
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
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His sister Tamara is a close friend of mine, and I am the godmother to her daughter, I have a great relationship with all of the Castagnolas.
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Glissaundra is my godmother, bless her, and when I was a sprat she once gave me a jar filled with a powder that she said would restore things to their true forms.
From The Valley Of Lost Projects: Princess Lucinda And The Missing Moon
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When Priscilla became pregnant, she asked Sarah to be godmother to her child, Lisa.
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In some ways, the self-taught writer could be called the Southern godmother of feminism, an autodidactic intellectual who carved out her singular role as a woman to be reckoned with on her on terms, in her own idiosyncratic ways, in the most hallowed and male-dominated coven in the country--the Halls of Congress--a generation before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton emerged on the national stage.
Jeff Biggers: "Office Holders Are Desperate": 180 Years Before HuffPo, Anne Royall's Wicked Blogs Held DC Accountable
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‘Walter's wife, Cathy, is the godmother to my second son,’ Andy says in his embracing voice.
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I said, " Oh, dear godmother, tell me, pray do tell me, did mama die on my birthday?
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Seemingly, the necessity of making the first child act as godfather/godmother to the last-born sibling relates to the wish of fully integrating the surplus child with the living, by placing him or her in a clearly defined family position.
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Among Kucinich's Hollywood supporters is Shirley MacLaine, an old friend who is godmother to Kucinich's daughter.
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When I got home I called my godmother, Ann Ward, for advice on this spiritual conflict before me.
Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons
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Araminta, Lady Bellamy, eccentric relict of a wealthy man, was his godmother.
A RAKE'S VOW
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She was my best friend and the godmother of my daughter.
The Sun
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In some ways, the self-taught writer could be called the Southern godmother of feminism, an autodidactic intellectual who carved out her singular role as a woman to be reckoned with on her on terms, in her own idiosyncratic ways, in the most hallowed and male-dominated coven in the country -- the Halls of Congress -- a generation before Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton emerged on the national stage.
Jeff Biggers: "Office Holders Are Desperate": 180 Years Before HuffPo, Anne Royall's Wicked Blogs Held DC Accountable
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If you don’t want to worry about it, just make sure that your fairy godmother is a damn good midwife and herbalist.
Virgins and whores at SF Novelists
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She'd been a bridesmaid at their wedding, and was now a godmother of their recently-born firstborn child Jacob.
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The princess is godmother to their 14-year-old son Peregrine, a pupil at Winchester.
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Oh, and I think someone who can produce the glorious phrase ‘gorgeously-bedizened gasbag’ is not someone who missed out on a visit by the fairy godmother of lyricism in their crib.
And Again, Love « Tales from the Reading Room
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You have devoured all when you were standing godmother.
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The company played fairy godmother by deciding to sponsor the club for a further five years.
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I can't remember the last time that you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your only child.
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On April 17, 1733, she became godmother to a child of a Judge Premont.
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A clock chiming reminded Cinderella of fairy godmother's warning.
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When the dismal news of his great loss was carried to the Prince, he suspected his godmother very much indeed; but, he knew that his servants must have kept company with the malicious beldame, and must have given way to her, and therefore he resolved to turn those servants out of their places.
Reprinted Pieces
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Grimble, once he's given the blessed footwear by his pestilent fairy godmother, has a smooth ride, which means no drama.
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So my daughter tells me that not only are you my grandbaby's godmother but also that she's named after you!
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Moreover, Virginia acted as godmother to her ninth and eleventh siblings - but not to the tenth, who had been named after a previously dead infant.
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The loveable Buttons attempts to bring peace, with the help of the Fairy Godmother.
