Maiden

//ˈmeɪdən//

"Maiden" in a Sentence (29 examples)

The Titanic sunk on its maiden voyage.

His maiden work established his reputation.

The love of a young maiden is a poem. The love of an old maid is philosophy.

But it is specially evil that the young maiden folk are exceedingly bold of speech and bearing, and curse like troopers, to say nothing of their shameful words and scandalous coarse sayings, which one always hears and learns from another.

The Titanic sank on her maiden voyage. She was a large ship.

Mary went back to using her maiden name.

The Titanic's maiden voyage didn't go so well.

What is your maiden name?

Near such high virtue, every maiden fear takes wing at once.

Thou know’st the mask of night is on my face, else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek.

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She's unmarried and still a maiden.

As for that ſaid ſire Bors I wille be ſhryuen with a good wylle / Soo ſyr Bors was confeſſyd / and for al wymmen ſir Bors was a vyrgyne / ſauf for one / that was the doughter of kynge Brangorys / and on her he gat a child that hyghte Elayne / and ſauf for her ſyre Bors was a clene mayden[…]

It had been customary during the whole civil war, to decapitate state criminals by the instrument called the maiden; but Montrose was condemned to a more ignominious death , by a gibbet thirty feet high

a surprising old maiden lady

It was just the middle of October when I moved in with my maiden sister […]

Haue you no modeſty, no maiden ſhame, / No touch of baſhfulneſſe?

1975 was the year when West Indies won their maiden World Cup title.

The Titanic sank on its maiden voyage.

After Edmund Burke's maiden speech, William Pitt the Elder said Burke had "spoken in such a manner as to stop the mouths of all Europe" and that the Commons should congratulate itself on acquiring such a member.

Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado took his maiden victory and Williams's first since 2004 in a strategic battle with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.

He bowled a record twelve maiden overs in his spell of 8-33 in 21 overs.

Come Brother Iohn, full brauely haſt thou fleſht thy Maiden ſword.

When I am dead, good Wench, / Let me be vs’d with Honor; ſtrew me ouer / With Maiden Flowers, that all the world may know / I was a chaſte Wife, to my Graue: Embalme me, / Then lay me forth (although vnqueen’d) yet like / A Queene, and Daughter to a King enterre me.

Victorie forsook him for ever since he ransacked the maiden town of Magdenburg

But every citizen considered his own honor as bound up with the honor of the maiden fortress.

[…] different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.

The Lady is often thought of as having three aspects: Maiden, Mother, and Crone.

"'Tis the simplest thing in the world, sir," said Sheridan. "Virgo, the Maiden, follows Leo, the Lion, in society, as well as in the Zodiac."

In the top left-hand corner was the emblem of the company - a young woman holding up an ear of corn. The stranger had given him the Sign of the Maiden!

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