matronly

How To Use matronly In A Sentence

• In a few years that hardness will translate into something matronly. YELLOW BIRD
• The soft-eyed dame could scarcely be called a matronly personage. Erling the Bold
• In a few years that hardness will translate into something matronly. YELLOW BIRD
• One matronly woman with a Phyllis Diller hair-do was holding forth on the blessings of gentrification. ICED
• An almost matronly St. John shambled out onto the Jane Mallett Theatre stage in a wrinkled pigeon-colored number that had to be one of the ugliest frocks to see stage lights this season.
• Jesus was trying to sneak burlap into his garment instead of showcasing it as the main fabric, sewing yard after yard of ribbon over the burlap, creating a lame-o green and brown dress that was later called matronly, and rightfully so. The Clog
• In the tonneau was a matronly woman and three girls including "L'Enfant Terrible," all, Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper
• I thought of them, cool and rich from many punnets picked and rated highly by the matronly overseer, laughing and drinking in some city bar.
• The by-now matronly personnel manager and a flock of remarkable young employees stand around offering toasts on the happy occasion.
• Notable and new, to me at least, was the spectacle of matronly gents dressing up as their mothers, aunties and schoolmarms in dowdy conservative outfits, cheerlessly dispensing disapproval over all.