How to Use milkmaid in a Sentence

milkmaid

noun

• Kylie isn’t the first star to partake in the milkmaid look.
  — Teen Vogue, 16 Aug. 2019
• The look was, fittingly, very French milkmaid from the 1700s.
  — Teen Vogue, 16 Aug. 2019
• The farmer and his wife adopt the child, and the milkmaid is told to stay away from the boy, who grows up thinking that the farmer’s wife is his mother.
  — Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
• Lugging the Stanley Cup like a milkmaid with her yoke can work for a bit, but soon Alex Ovechkin’s shoulder muscles begin to ache.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 11 June 2018
• Trust us, these low-lying plaits aren't for your average milkmaid.
  — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 17 July 2017
• Based on the large vessel at her feet, scholars have concluded that the portrait’s subject was likely a servant or milkmaid.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2021
• The vibe is part Austrian milkmaid, part Jackie O. Just add sunglasses.
  — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 5 Oct. 2020
• Perhaps Vermeer intended viewers to infer that his milkmaid, too, had love on her mind.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• The vaccine was developed in the late 18th century by physician Edward Jenner, who aimed to put a piece of folklore to the test: that milkmaids seemed to contract a milder form of the disease, called cowpox.
  — Robert Kuznia, CNN, 13 May 2020
• Big sis Kendall also showed up with her man candy Ben Simmons, continuing her lime green holiday theme in a neon milkmaid top and leather pants.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 2 Jan. 2019
• At the Moschino runway show in June, Rowan took an edgier approach to milkmaid dressing, wearing a two-piece rococo-print fit with platform heels.
  — Teen Vogue, 16 Aug. 2019
• In an experiment that today would warrant steep criminal charges, Jenner took pus from the scab of a milkmaid and inserted it into an incision on the arm of an 8-year-old boy.
  — Robert Kuznia, CNN, 13 May 2020
• The protagonist, one Reginald Bunthorne, is a foppish aesthete who’s gained star status but is frustrated in his attempts to win the heart of the titular milkmaid Patience.
  — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 8 Feb. 2017
• Jenner experimented with the cowpox virus, using material from a pox on a milkmaid who had acquired the disease to infect the eight-year-old son of his gardener.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2021
• At the end of the 18th century, British physician Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had suffered a mild disease called cowpox often seemed to be untouched by another much worse one—smallpox.
  — National Geographic, 19 May 2020
• It was inspired in the 1800s by the observation that milkmaids did not develop tuberculosis.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024