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damsel

[dam-zuhl] / ˈdæm zəl /


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Above us swallows dart through the air, Graeme takes a picture of a damsel fly and the brook to our side continues to babble.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2024

The minute Furiosa starts gnawing on her captor’s fuel line, though, Miller makes it clear that this wee captive is no damsel in distress.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2024

A damsel, even if only in his imagination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2024

But also, it has a lot of humor surrounding it, because it's that damsel in distress kind of character.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2023

When the fair damsel came in with the next meal, she showed signs of wanting to talk to him.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

None of my family are damsels in distress.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2023

One of the ovals’ long-tressed damsels is encountering a rearing leopard, and the other seems unfazed by a yellow serpent.

From New York Times ● May 7, 2023

Weighted down by the responsibilities of matrimony, they reveal their existential hang-up: an indomitable fairy-tale urge to find other damsels to save.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023

"I got myself into action films because I didn't believe that women were damsels in distress. Their stories need to be told correctly," Yeoh says.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2023

We would ride down villains who robbed stagecoaches or in other ways threatened damsels in distress, whom we could save and, of course, never kiss, but ride off at the end of our imagination.

From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen




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