Example Sentences

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After nine months of beauty treatments in drydock, she shone bridelike again as she glided away from a Southampton pier to take a two-day trial run.

From Time Magazine Archive

She wore a white silk trimmed with a great deal of very rich lace, white flowers in her hair and at her throat, and looked very bridelike and beautiful.

From Grandmother Elsie by Finley, Martha

Free from man's disfiguring touch, pure, immaculate, it appeared bridelike through a veil of morning mist.

From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van

"No, I do not want to be too youthfully dressed, or to look too bridelike on my wedding tour; so I think I will have a dark navy blue."

From Elsie at the World's Fair by Finley, Martha

The village church was decorated by the bride, her younger sisters, and some neighbors, with dogwood, than which nothing is more bridelike or beautiful.

From Etiquette by Post, Emily