How to Use gamine in a Sentence

gamine

noun
  • The woman caught within the frame is part gamine, gun moll.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Look: Farrow is the poster child of gamine chic with her short pixie cut and simple white skirt suit.
    Vogue, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The star is Georgina Pazcoguin, wearing a white shirt, black jeans and a pair of black point shoes, gamine wig pasted to her skull.
    New York Times, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Eleven's gamine cut in 1986 is in fact a wig, which is mindblowing for a few reasons — but more on that shortly.
    Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 4 June 2022
  • Audiences and most critics adored her as George Bernard Shaw’s gamine.
    New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • There's still about a week of Cannes left to go, so maybe somebody will wear this gamine Viktor & Rolf—then run off to actually do the deed on a yacht.
    Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 23 May 2017
  • Fast-forward to the following decade, when the gap-toothed gamine abandoned her heavy hand to embrace a more au naturel approach.
    Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Lithe and gamine, with an easygoing demeanor, Mizuhara is one of Japan’s most recognizable faces.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2018
  • She has been compared to that other naughty gamine Holly Golightly, but Holly was poignant.
    WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The results are 16-pieces that fill that cool-girl void in your closet, think gamine blouses, tweedy minis, boyish jackets and louche ankle booties—in leopard or rich caramel leather.
    Kerry Pieri, Marie Claire, 21 Oct. 2014
  • Kravitz's choice to exchange her waist-grazing braids for the gamine chop was a decidedly strong one, though par for the course for the actress, who parted ways with her lengths back in 2017—and switched her raven for a peroxide dye job.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Kristen Stewart is single-handedly reimagining the gamine grow-out.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2017
  • At Ricci, Henry traded the gamine vision that saw success at Carven for a more serious, sultry brand of femininity.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Her gamine urgency and warmth lent an otherwise largely absent humanity to Godard’s films.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Director Marc Bruni assembles all the ingredients for a hopelessly romantic evening of musical theater escapism: a gamine ingenue, an infectious score, even a vintage Vespa on stage.
    Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 7 June 2017
  • The woman caught within the frame is part gamine, gun moll.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Look: Farrow is the poster child of gamine chic with her short pixie cut and simple white skirt suit.
    Vogue, 6 Feb. 2018
  • The star is Georgina Pazcoguin, wearing a white shirt, black jeans and a pair of black point shoes, gamine wig pasted to her skull.
    New York Times, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Eleven's gamine cut in 1986 is in fact a wig, which is mindblowing for a few reasons — but more on that shortly.
    Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 4 June 2022
  • Audiences and most critics adored her as George Bernard Shaw’s gamine.
    New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • There's still about a week of Cannes left to go, so maybe somebody will wear this gamine Viktor & Rolf—then run off to actually do the deed on a yacht.
    Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 23 May 2017
  • Fast-forward to the following decade, when the gap-toothed gamine abandoned her heavy hand to embrace a more au naturel approach.
    Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Lithe and gamine, with an easygoing demeanor, Mizuhara is one of Japan’s most recognizable faces.
    Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2018
  • She has been compared to that other naughty gamine Holly Golightly, but Holly was poignant.
    WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The results are 16-pieces that fill that cool-girl void in your closet, think gamine blouses, tweedy minis, boyish jackets and louche ankle booties—in leopard or rich caramel leather.
    Kerry Pieri, Marie Claire, 21 Oct. 2014
  • Kravitz's choice to exchange her waist-grazing braids for the gamine chop was a decidedly strong one, though par for the course for the actress, who parted ways with her lengths back in 2017—and switched her raven for a peroxide dye job.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2019
  • Kristen Stewart is single-handedly reimagining the gamine grow-out.
    Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2017
  • At Ricci, Henry traded the gamine vision that saw success at Carven for a more serious, sultry brand of femininity.
    Steff Yotka, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Her gamine urgency and warmth lent an otherwise largely absent humanity to Godard’s films.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Director Marc Bruni assembles all the ingredients for a hopelessly romantic evening of musical theater escapism: a gamine ingenue, an infectious score, even a vintage Vespa on stage.
    Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 7 June 2017

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