Example Sentences

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The riotous reason was really spring, and like a maenadic overtone sounded the shrill, feminine piping of Radcliffe girls, now virtually coeds at Harvard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ray danced to her feet, tossing her hair backward in maenadic waves, her hands outflung, her voice a taunt and a singsong.

From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Hurst, Fannie