swain

Example Sentences

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Like a handsome but withholding swain, Elba draws us back to “Luther” time and again.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2019

Hopeful swain Melchor moves to L.A. to meet his online love, Magdalena, for the first time, only to fall in love with a mysterious masked woman — unaware that she is Magdalena in disguise.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2018

It’s back to the archipelago with this 1990 musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty in which a peasant girl and a wealthy swain are tangled in a divine bet between love and death.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2017

Daniels has also changed the genders of one of the human characters: The young swain Lysander is now a woman.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2011

She was probably avoiding a lovesick swain, not wealthy enough or ancient enough to suit her.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine