How to Use huntress in a Sentence

huntress

noun
  • Oh my God, Grace the tiger huntress is William’s daughter!
    William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 14 May 2018
  • Roberts is the face of Chasseresse, which means huntress in French.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Here’s the page about Atalanta, the huntress of Greek mythology who killed any suitor who could not defeat her in a race.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Zhang is Milva, a human adopted by the dryads of Brokilon Forest who is a fierce and talented huntress.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Sony showed off Aloy, the formidable huntress star of Horizon: Zero Dawn.
    Carolyn Petit, WIRED, 14 June 2019
  • The protagonist is a huntress who agrees to travel to a magical realm with a faerie lord, in exchange for her family's safety.
    Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Best known for its lovely music, written in 1876 by Leo Delibes, the ballet conveys the story of a mythical huntress' love for a mortal shepherd.
    Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Marie-Aurore de Saxe, a French noblewoman and freethinker, was painted in the guise of Diana, the huntress, wearing a leopard-print gown with billowing sleeves and a plunging bosom.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • What was new in Fitzgerald’s treatment was that the aggressors often were young women, chaste huntresses making conquests one after another.
    Sam Tanenhaus, New Republic, 31 May 2017
  • The animated fantasy show RWBY is set in a world filled with horrific monsters bent on death and destruction, and where humanity’s hope lies with powerful huntsmen and huntresses.
    Clark Collis, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Digital scavenging, however, is just one of the unapologetic bargain huntress's methods.
    Kathleen Hackett, ELLE Decor, 16 Feb. 2012

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