starlet

Example Sentences

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But he could not make the transition from academy starlet to first team at Liverpool.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

We’re more taken by the scenes in which her father, Stellan Skarsgård’s faded filmmaker Gustav, dusts off his moth-eaten charisma to charm Elle Fanning’s Hollywood starlet into doing his new project.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

Playing a starlet as a dummy would be a cliché; Ms. Fanning’s acting choices, in harmony with the rest of the film, are delicate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

While the fourth player from Spain is Barcelona's teenage starlet Lamine Yamal, who is 10th with $43 million.

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

Up and back, up and back, eighteen laps, and when I’m done, I’m hanging on in the deep end, panting away, and over swims this starlet.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman