nubile

Example Sentences

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This is the clunker: Confetti falls from the ceiling, and Odenkirk and his co-host David Cross are surrounded not by nubile women but by unkempt, grinning nerds with annoying questions.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2015

She points out a weird new kind of equality in that, instead of lessening the pressure on women to be young and nubile, Hollywood is simply heaping more on young male actors.

From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2015

Sun-loving saplings, blackberries and greenbriers wrapped their nubile tendrils around the opportunity, tangling with one another in thick knots as they scaled toward the light.

From Scientific American • Mar. 1, 2014

The story of Tevye, the milkman of a small village in czarist Russia around the time of the pogroms, his nagging wife and his nubile daughters, is a modest affair requiring intimate treatment.

From Time Magazine Archive

To call the moths of the countryside to the wedding-feast, to warn them at a distance and to guide them the nubile female emits an odour of extreme subtlety, imperceptible to our own olfactory sense-organs.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard