matronly

How To Use matronly In A Sentence

• A long screech was followed by a thud as a matronly passenger tumbled forward, breaking her arm.
• Peach escapes narrowly to design another day although her pink polka dot snore of a dress (even she admitted earlier it looked like "Barbie's sofa") is called "matronly" by the judges and like "an Amish cocktail dress" by MK (his lines are doubling me over so far this season). Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Season 8, Episodes 1 and 2
• Those with sleeves that stop just short of the elbow can make a classier alternative to sleeveless or short-sleeved ones, both of which risk looking matronly on older women.
• The matronly Judith, unable to hack off Holofernes's head, carves through it with businesslike concentration, pinioning him to the blood-weltering bed with the help of her equally brutish maidservant.
• And get it tailored next time so it actually sort of fits and doesn't make you look matronly.
• The Ionic order is more elegant and matronly – think Boticelli's Venus – with often unfluted columns, scrolled capitals, friezes that are sometimes adorned with elaborately sculpted bas-relief and dentils – a row of small blocks – below the cornices. Renaissance architecture: how to identify the Roman orders
• The older nurse clucked in a matronly manner and the two nurses, together, hurried the girl into the back room to find a doctor.
• I had barely started when the two matronly American ladies we'd seen in the tea shop, still in their kagouls, walked past me.
• That's all the prompting the matronly dormouse needed.
• She was a large and matronly RN who had witnessed thirty years of nuthatches and was immune to anything. THE SERPENT'S MARK