How to Use debutante in a Sentence

debutante

noun

• According to tradition, debutante balls are designed to introduce young ladies to polite society.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 15 Sep. 2024
• In particular, Maeve bemoans the annual debutante ball, which Taylah dreams of attending.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The buzz: This is a top-heavy group with the two 2019 finalists, the U.S. and the Netherlands, matched with a pair of debutantes.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• The Bengals are the debutante, coming out a year before the ball.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 Jan. 2022
• All the better to hunt down 5th avenue in—punks and debutantes alike.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Sep. 2014
• The most notable debutantes from the tech sector were left out in the cold during the market’s hot run.
  — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2020
• This was a fancy debutante ball, and things were rather more proper.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
• Designers from New York would come, and debutantes of the area would act as their models.
  — Grace Dickinson, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
• The lives of high schoolers, a debutante and others overlap in a dying 1950s Texas town.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• The ultimate in social power, the ever-coiffed queen can make or break the chances of a young debutante with a word.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 6 May 2023
• The timing couldn’t be better for Uber and its fellow debutantes.
  — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
• To close out the five-run lead in the ninth, Molitor called on major league debutante Trevor Hildenberger.
  — Billy Heyen, cleveland.com, 24 June 2017
• Vietnam climbed one spot to No. 32, the highest-ranking ever for the World Cup debutante.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
• Also part of the night was Anya and her fellow debutantes dancing a waltz with OIC members.
  — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 11 Feb. 2018
• Mortimer was a blond Southern debutante who had married the heir to an oil fortune.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• That first portrait depicts a shy fresh-faced debutante.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 15 Dec. 2019
• The Philippines became the first World Cup debutante at this tournament to secure a win.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 26 July 2023
• The day has finally come for Belly to become a debutante.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 19 June 2022
• Shannon Harvey, co-chair, shared that the girls who are involved to the ball today are called honorees rather than debutantes.
  — Alyssa Alfano, cleveland.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• While at sea the ruggedly handsome athlete worked out on rowing machines during the day and kicked up his heels with the debutantes on the dance floor at night.
  — Meryl Gordon, Town & Country, 7 Nov. 2019
• The nightclub singer has a crush on the stockbroker, who’s in love with the debutante, who’s engaged to an English aristocrat.
  — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
• New Zealand, meanwhile, won a game for the first time in six World Cups, then promptly lost to the Philippines, a tournament debutante.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• Then the issue would come down to their comparative margins against the debutantes.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
• Tall and slender, her golden hair piled on top of her head, many commented on her beauty as a debutante.
  — Susan Butler, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
• Renouard revived Le Bal in the 1990s as a kind of update to the historic debutante balls that had taken place centuries before.
  — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2023
• Club debutantes and members also waltzed, with members then waltzing with their wives or dates.
  — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2018
• By the 1920s and into the Depression, the media was paying close attention to debutantes.
  — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2017
• That could happen again in the opener against Vietnam, a World Cup debutante who lost 9-0 to Spain in its final tournament tune-up.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
• Like Wharton’s famed debutante, Ivy aims to marry into wealth.
  — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
• Amdam likens them to the classic optical illusion (shown on the right) which depicts both a young debutante and an old crone.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2012

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024