Sentences with matronly
ma·tron·ly
M m - ...a matronly woman with an air of authority.
- The matronly woman cared for the sick orphan.
- She's 66, matronly, with big glasses and a little beaky nose.
- When Dustin Hoffman plays the matronly nanny in Tootsie.
- . . . the matronly upper arms girls know about life and love and losing. . . Janeane Garofalo
- Gone is her matronly gray frizzy hair and those bushy brows, frumpy frock and old lady pearls. [1]
- She can be matronly and kittenish, severe and tender within the same scene.
- The mother dressed matronly, in a bonnet and in black, always sat between her two big daughters, firm, directing, and repressed.