matronly

Example Sentences

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But that doesn’t mean that she has to look matronly, either.

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026

Out is the matronly decorum that characterized Elizabeth’s reign.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 24, 2023

Her youthful style had given way to matronly suits, sensible shoes, quaint hats and an immutable, immovable gray coiffure.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2022

But Barbara Bush wasn’t thrilled with Abrams’s matronly portrait of her.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2022

She is in an earlier phase, or a later one: the soft green tweeds and tailored blouses of her good- taste background, which now appear matronly on her, because she has put on weight.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood