How To Use Matronly In A Sentence
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In a few years that hardness will translate into something matronly.
YELLOW BIRD
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The soft-eyed dame could scarcely be called a matronly personage.
Erling the Bold
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In a few years that hardness will translate into something matronly.
YELLOW BIRD
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One matronly woman with a Phyllis Diller hair-do was holding forth on the blessings of gentrification.
ICED
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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.
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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
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In the tonneau was a matronly woman and three girls including "L'Enfant Terrible," all,
Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper
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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.
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The by-now matronly personnel manager and a flock of remarkable young employees stand around offering toasts on the happy occasion.
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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.
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IMHO, 'Miss' has a certain je ne sais quoi that is, in its way, distinctly prettier than 'Mrs' - a word which, no matter how slim and lovely its owner, always sounds vaguely plump, matronly and dinner-ladyish.
Miss Behaving
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In a few years that hardness will translate into something matronly.
YELLOW BIRD
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Nevertheless, her plain delivery stripped of vocal runs, trills and decorations can make her long baroque arias sound staid and matronly.
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Yes, I sort of thought they wanted a more matronly sound.
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This despite the presence last week of Broadway diva Patti LuPone in the singing role of Anna 1, a no-nonsense, matronly gal, and dancer Wendy Whelan, in her 20th anniversary year with NYCB, as dancing Anna 2, the acquiescent sibling or split personality accompanying her sister as they travel the U.S. making money to send to their stern family for a new house.
Seven Sins, Both Deadly and Dull
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This was a matronly prison guard reading messages from the artist.
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her matronly figure
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I was beginning to feel rather matronly, and now I'm back to the weight I've always been.
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I had barely started when the two matronly American ladies we'd seen in the tea shop, still in their kagouls, walked past me.
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‘I find it quite comforting to be matronly,’ she says.
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It's so matronly," Tim grimaces, and guys, if we do start a drinking game, "matronly" will give us alcohol poisoning.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 2 Recap: Size Matters
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‘You'll get used to it,’ says Brenda, adopting a matronly tone.
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Many deemed it too figure-hugging and too young, emphasising what looked suspiciously like a matronly figure, but it demonstrated nonetheless that this was a woman not afraid to experiment with her look.
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The music starts, and six identical doors swing open on the set to reveal six matronly dancers in zebra-print gowns and big hair.
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When I was a kid, there were two matronly old women who lived down our otherwise quiet cul-de-sac.
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But, a modern woman of 38 surely does not yearn to appear like a matronly 52… ouch!
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Old men decked in brocaded black robes talked in huddles, their matronly wives - veterans of grand weddings past - glittering gold and exuding scent.
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Peach escapes narrowly to design another day although her pink polka dot snore of a dress (even she admitted earlier it looked like "Barbie's sofa") is called "matronly" by the judges and like "an Amish cocktail dress" by MK (his lines are doubling me over so far this season).
Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Season 8, Episodes 1 and 2
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Those with sleeves that stop just short of the elbow can make a classier alternative to sleeveless or short-sleeved ones, both of which risk looking matronly on older women.
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The matronly Judith, unable to hack off Holofernes's head, carves through it with businesslike concentration, pinioning him to the blood-weltering bed with the help of her equally brutish maidservant.
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And get it tailored next time so it actually sort of fits and doesn't make you look matronly.
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The Ionic order is more elegant and matronly – think Boticelli's Venus – with often unfluted columns, scrolled capitals, friezes that are sometimes adorned with elaborately sculpted bas-relief and dentils – a row of small blocks – below the cornices.
Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders
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The older nurse clucked in a matronly manner and the two nurses, together, hurried the girl into the back room to find a doctor.
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I had barely started when the two matronly American ladies we'd seen in the tea shop, still in their kagouls, walked past me.
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That's all the prompting the matronly dormouse needed.
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She was a large and matronly RN who had witnessed thirty years of nuthatches and was immune to anything.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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Transition from maidenhood to what is called the matronly had been too rapid; it was emphasised by her costume, which cried aloud in its excess of modish splendour.
The Crown of Life
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In a few years that hardness will translate into something matronly.
YELLOW BIRD
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Virginian squires; and could we have peeped into the square, solid drawing-room in which, as President, he held his receptions, aided by the matronly grace and dignity of Mrs. Washington, the scene would be far gayer and more imposing than William Penn's house would have displayed, or the company of the richest Dutch "patroon" of New York could have presented in the seventeenth century.
The Nation in a Nutshell
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A long screech was followed by a thud as a matronly passenger tumbled forward, breaking her arm.
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Judging from the reaction of the Empress, our next-door neighbor, she also did a fair number on the matronly blue-haired crowd as well.
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More matronly sorts opt instead for ye olde-style tea shoppes and here you can eavesdrop over a discreet pot of Darjeeling.
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Putting on my most matronly look, I refuse this unappetising offer.
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Images of matronly school teachers writing on chalkboards as their untoned arms jiggle and sag would make anyone want to train her tri's 24 / 7.
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Does she feel matronly toward her flock of thespians?
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Her matronly fame was trodden under all men's feet.
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More matronly sorts opt instead for ye olde-style tea shoppes and here you can eavesdrop over a discreet pot of Darjeeling.
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Agnes Kimberly King, a rich, matronly bully who clinically slices and dices her family to bits while nervously fingering her pearl necklace.
George Heymont: Stiff Upper Lips
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citizeness" of Zurich, _embonpoint_ and matronly, married to one of the portly burghers of the city, and exemplary in all the arts of sheep-shearing, wool-spinning, and cheese-making; a mother, surrounded
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844
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This was enough; and the next morning Farfrae might have been discovered driving his gig out of Casterbridge in that direction, Elizabeth-Jane sitting beside him, wrapped in a thick flat fur -- the victorine of the period -- her complexion somewhat richer than formerly, and an incipient matronly dignity, which the serene Minerva-eyes of one "whose gestures beamed with mind" made becoming, settling on her face.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
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The Ionic order is more elegant and matronly – think Boticelli's Venus – with often unfluted columns, scrolled capitals, friezes that are sometimes adorned with elaborately sculpted bas-relief and dentils – a row of small blocks – below the cornices.
Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders
