coquette

Example Sentences

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This is the note I was furiously typing on my phone during Sandy Liang’s presentation: “Girly pop, coquette, hot ticket — obviously. Bandannas!!!”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2024

Corrin immediately achieves a balance between the coquette and energetic idealist we picture Diana to be, and her performance invites the viewer into the Princess's interiority almost immediately.

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2020

She placed a hand on each cheek, tilted her head like a stage coquette and pouted moodily.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2019

This early Parisienne was an accessible figure, a scrappy coquette who loved as hard as she worked.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 19, 2019

Dim with the Past, a fortress close-guards yet A city whose once-fettered feet are free, To wear, serene as some white-limbed coquette, The gold-and-sapphire anklet of the Sea.

From Mavis of Green Hill by Baldwin, Faith