How to Use queenly in a Sentence

queenly

adjective

• She maintained a queenly posture.
• Arya is not even a tiny bit jealous of Sansa's new queenly title.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 20 May 2019
• In the House of Tudor, a servant might sleep on a cot by the bed or slip under the covers with her queenly boss for warmth.
  — Nika Mavrody, The Atlantic, 19 May 2017
• Her death also allows the narrator to emerge and to reveal her queenly rank.
  — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
• Lest you are left wondering who rules the hive, Rosetta sparkles in a queenly gown inlaid with bling; Marie wears a girlish peach frock.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• In one final theatrical flourish, her queenly robes fly off to reveal an ice blue dress, hand-beaded over the course of 41 days by a team of seamstresses.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Half this spring’s university graduates are likely to live to a queenly 100-years-old.
  — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• This fear stands in contrast to Ellmann’s mountain lion, with her single-minded focus, her stark and queenly solitude.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2019
• From her queenly head cascaded a waterfall of golden curls.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• The queenly allusions aren’t just a gimmick, the combs, which are made from zebu horn, a biodegradable material rich in keratin, are especially gentle on black hair.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 13 July 2018
• O’Connell — Didi, to her intimates — is petite and nimble, with a queenly nimbus of red hair and a default expression, offstage anyway, of intent curiosity.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2022
• Her performances of these queenly characters are memorable because of the passion quaking beneath her serene, regal bearing.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 4 July 2017
• M.I.A. managed to upstage an entire queenly Madonna extravaganza with one raised middle finger in 2012.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2016
• A serene, queenly presence as Elisabeth, Anja Harteros focused her emotions in her attractively unsettled voice, practically vibrating with feeling.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 23 May 2017

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024