Example Sentences

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I was a terrible painter – my portraits looked like the evil chimera love-children of Picasso's demoiselles and the BBC test card clown.

From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2013

The residents of this marine civilization have extravagant names like azure demoiselles, pewter angelfish, painted frogfish and saddle butterflyfish.

From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2012

Familiarity has inured us to the horror that these dog-faced demoiselles caused when they were first unveiled, almost a century ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among her bridesmaids walked sedately those two small demoiselles the Misses Camilla and Mary Esther Edge, daughters of the U. S. Ambassador.

From Time Magazine Archive

No notice was taken of Amy’s flight, except by her mates, but the sharp-eyed demoiselles discovered that Mr. Davis was quite benignant in the afternoon, also unusually nervous.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott