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huntress

[ UK /hˈʌntɹəs/ ]
[ US /ˈhəntɹɪs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a woman hunter

How To Use huntress In A Sentence

  • Dolly leapt into action, the huntress awakened, graceful, athletic, like a prima ballerina in a full fur coat.
  • And first indeed Parthenopæus the son of the huntress (Atalanta) led his division horrent with their thick shields against the Neïtan gate, having a family device in the middle of his shield, Atalanta destroying the Ætolian boar with her distant-wounding bow. The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
  • Her, of his love, the god made a nymph there, of long life and a huntress, and his son he brought while still an infant to be nurtured in the cave of Cheiron. The Argonautica
  • Russians used the term borzoi to refer to all greyhounds and sight hounds - dogs that catch sight of and then chase their prey, either dispatching it when they catch up to it or detaining it until the hunter or huntress arrives.
  • The Huntress notched arrow after arrow and hit each target with precise accuracy.
  • Titian made another painting of the divine huntress and Cadmus's grandson: The Death of Actaeon, which hangs in the National Gallery in London.
  • The virgin huntress who haunted the wild mountainside and sea-girt territory of Greece was a foreigner to the banks of the Nile…
  • Such a vessel is our Huntress, built at your Cousin Martin's instigation and launched at the moment when our fortunes were at their lowest ebb. The Windy Hill
  • The pure silvery Moon was associated with the chaste Moon goddesses, Artemis, ‘the Huntress with the Silver Bow’, and Diana, whose images were cast from silver.
  • The huntress silently pulled out a small dagger from her waist; its blade gleamed in the flickering light.
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