Use "ladylike" in a sentence
ladylike example sentences
ladylike
1. Recovering to a barn, Cruzel led the girl inside and provided her with a tub, hot water, warm towels and clean clothes, pretty clothes, ladylike clothes
2. I suppose that what said wasn't very ladylike, and certainly not the sort or thing a
3. She greeted him with a ladylike but not
4. She embarked before the barge was properly secured and strode down the jetty with a step that was more masculine than ladylike
5. It wasn’t very ladylike, but she really couldn’t have cared less
6. Was it becoming? Was it good for them? Was it ladylike? Ought they to wear skirts or--? In Paris they all wore--
7. I did as she requested, of course, glad I’d decided to put on that skirt and those ladylike shoes
8. But someone did pass, and who should it be but Meg, looking particularly ladylike in her state and festival suit, for she had been making calls
9. Why was it so unconscious and ladylike? The composure of the eyes irritated him
10. Gerty stifled a smothered exclamation and gave a nervous cough and Edy asked what and she was just going to tell her to catch it while it was flying but she was ever ladylike in her deportment so she simply passed it off with consummate tact by saying that that was the benediction because just then the bell rang out from the steeple over the quiet seashore because Canon O'Hanlon was up on the altar
11. (He chuckles) My boys will be no end charmed to see you so ladylike, the colonel, above all, when they come here the night before the wedding to fondle my new attraction in gilded heels
12. I’m not sure I have the words to describe that moment but if there’s a word that means the exact opposite of “ladylike,” that would be a good start
13. “How could he know? I’ve always acted so prissy and ladylike and touch-me-not around him he probably thinks I don’t care a thing about him except as a friend
14. As a result, Suellen’s sullen back and forth from the shade of the oak to the tables to fetch dainties to tempt Scarlett, resentment had passed beyond the point of ladylike concealment and she glowered at Scarlett
15. If Charles had inherited any of the qualities of the stern, fearless, hot- tempered soldier who had been his father, they had been obliterated in childhood by the ladylike atmosphere in which he had been reared
16. Everyone knew that her swoons were generally mere ladylike pretenses but they loved her enough to refrain from saying so
17. Scarlett, who had hoped for a freer rein when she escaped Mammy’s supervision, discovered to her sorrow that Uncle Peter’s standards of ladylike conduct, especially for Mist’ Charles’ widow, were even stricter than Mammy’s
18. It made her feel more respectable and ladylike
19. But when ladylike airs failed to lady, forced by brutal circumstance into a distasteful position, a helpless little lady who get results she was coldly businesslike and willingly undersold her competitors at a loss to herself if it would bring her a new customer
20. Only one person had preceded Tess up the hill—a ladylike young woman, somewhat interesting, though, perhaps, a trifle guindée and prudish
21. It was one of our favorite ways to tease her: “Oh mom don’t touch, you’re like an alligator!” The church we fitfully attended kept lotion in the women’s room that she said smelled like roses: we’d all take turns squirting and sniffing our hands, complimenting each other on our ladylike scent
22. Mild “pools,” in which one drew for one’s number quite irrespective of tips and inside information, were the only ladylike form of betting