variants
or less commonly damosel
or damozel
Examples of damsel in a Sentence
knights are celebrated in fairy tales for rescuing damsels in distress
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Yes, her character Grace has become the love interest of Tom Cruise’s character Ethan Hunt in these latest Mission: Impossible films, but both actor Hayley Atwell and her on-screen persona are far from being a damsel in distress.
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Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Not for one second does Lepard’s script reduce Zephyr to a mere damsel in distress.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 17 May 2025
Sittin there trapped in a tower like the damsel that failed.
—Sidik Fofana, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
And Matt Murdock can’t be a damsel in distress or anything close to it for too long.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 26 Mar. 2025
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Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
Not for one second does Lepard’s script reduce Zephyr to a mere damsel in distress.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 17 May 2025
Sittin there trapped in a tower like the damsel that failed.
—Sidik Fofana, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
And Matt Murdock can’t be a damsel in distress or anything close to it for too long.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 26 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for damsel
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“Damsel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/damsel. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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Middle English damesel "damsel," from early French dameisele (same meaning), from Latin domina "lady, mistress" — related to dame
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