Example Sentences

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“The Bear” star Jeremy Allen White hunches into leather jackets and flannels, dark curls coquettishly kissing his brow, in order to embody Springsteen on screen.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025

She also threw roses to her adoring crowd at the Royal Albert Hall, and coquettishly handed one to conductor Sakari Oramo, who gamely tried to lead the orchestra with it, until the stem broke.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2024

“We have a standing reservation,” her mother would say, a joke, or, coquettishly, “Table for two.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2019

“A Gun Show” almost coquettishly advertises its underlying uncertainties and flirts with its own impotence.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2016

“Give me your headdress,” she ordered, but the woman only shook her head coquettishly.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston