Example Sentences

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With sister Elizabeth safely settled in matronhood, Margaret is the most eligible partygoer in Britain; it is her chore to play to the hilt the ingenue lead in an elaborate comedy of manners.

From Time Magazine Archive

Briefly I glimpse myself through her eyes: bloom off the rose, teetering on the brink of matronhood, hoping for the best.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Sallie Poughkeepsie was a large girl, with her mother's nose, her mother's serenity, her mother's promise of corpulent matronhood.

From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar

Tara was a matron getting on in years, and her matronhood had cost her dear in illness from which it had been thought she could never recover.

From Finn The Wolfhound by Buxton, Robert Hugh

Mrs. Emery retreated to the safe stronghold of matronhood.

From The Squirrel-Cage by Williams, John Alanzo