(n.) A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction; as, Damsel Pepin; Damsel Richard, Prince of Wales.
(n.) A young unmarried woman; a girl; a maiden.
(n.) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Juan Sheet from the Plenty kitchen roll advertisements Because the damsel in distress is the consumer, we can now be rescued from absolutely anything: roadside breakdown heroes rescue women (important that it is a woman) on dimly lit backstreets, sure, but beer can also come to the rescue of thirst, washing powder to the rescue of parents, gravy granules to the rescue of Sunday lunch.
(2) She has played middling singers and capricious interns, dancers, dreamers and damsels in distress, and she has done so with such ease and abandon that the actor and her alter egos have a tendency to blur.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Grappling with grouper … diving off Garajau beach I tried scuba-diving from Garajau beach in Caniço; the clear water of this protected marine reserve is teeming with big, friendly mero (grouper) and surprisingly tropical-looking fish, such as rainbow wrasse and damsel fish.
(4) "Back in the 1960s I broke down in the Mersey Tunnel and was towed out by Everton's ginger haired genius and his namesake dad," writes Jim Lynch, who probably shouldn't be described as a damsel.
(5) When they're not 7ft-tall high-heeled dominatrix killers, women in games tend to be saucy background-dressing or yelping damsels in distress.
(6) In his office hangs a sketch of a knight on horseback rescuing two damsels in distress – Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley.
(7) Yes, as far back as 1984 The Terminator gave us a groundbreaking action heroine in Linda Hamilton, but the bouffe-haired damsel in distress was still confined to the here and now, chased by one time-traveller and bedded by the other (in order to give birth to a future saviour).
(8) Doge running out of a burning building with a damsel in distress in his paws, after killing a baddie and saving a whole town with the exclamation of "Much hero!
(9) As it stands now, the mayor has not slain any dragons or rescued any damsels in distress and everybody's looking for a hero,” said political analyst Greg Bowens.
(10) On the cover, a satanic figure grips a silky-tressed damsel in distress.
(11) It has been said that women are not hard-wired to respond to damsels in distress in the same way men are, so all this "white dress scorned virgin" stuff can get a bit lost on us.
(12) People have this problem with Brunhilda as a damsel in distress, but I say she is.
(13) Luckily Ross is there, alighting from the bandstand to scoop up the distressed damsel and keep her moving among the other pairs, saved from embarrassment.
(14) Tamara Prokovna isn't the token love interest, however, or some kind of damsel in distress: she's a vital character in her own right, intrinsic to the main plot, not to mention extremely handy behind the wheel of a supercharged Mercedes.
(15) The damsel in distress and the hero product Everything from kitchen roll to chocolate bars has been cast in the role of hero, riding in to save the day and banish the fear.
(16) For the damsel in distress shopping around for a nose like the one seen advertised in a painting by Botticelli.
(17) For all that, I keep coming back to her delirious turn as Violet in Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress .
(18) And, at the same time, our hero miraculously appeared to save his damsel in distress.
(19) And Alan Ball has also ridden to the rescue of a damsel in distress.
(20) I wish that Brave had been around when I was a little girl, to show me an alternative to all those big-skirted damsels in distress, with their "some day my prince will come" and their serenading of small mammals.
Girl
Definition:
(n.) A young person of either sex; a child.
(n.) A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.
(n.) A female servant; a maidservant.
(n.) A roebuck two years old.
Example Sentences:
(1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
(2) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(3) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(4) All the twins were born in years 1973-1987, the total number was 2,226 boys and 2,302 girls.
(5) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
(6) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
(7) In seven girls with early adrenarche, plasma concentrations of DHEA were in the upper range of normal values, whereas T levels were within the normal range.
(8) In contrast, idiopathic GH deficient girls have an onset of puberty and PHV nearer to a normal chronological age and at an early bone age.
(9) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(10) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
(11) This study examined the effects of cultural factors on perception of 15 boys and 21 girls in Nigeria.
(12) The information about her father's semi-brainwashing forms an interesting backdrop to Malala's comments when I ask if she ever wonders about the man who tried to kill her on her way back from school that day in October last year, and why his hands were shaking as he held the gun – a detail she has picked up from the girls in the school bus with her at the time; she herself has no memory of the shooting.
(13) The court heard that Hall confronted one girl in the staff quarters of a hotel within minutes of her being chosen to appear as a cheerleader on his BBC show It's a Knockout.
(14) With baseline measures and body mass index controlled for, analyses of covariance showed that adults had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did children; men had greater blood pressure responses to all stressors than did women; and high school boys had greater systolic blood pressure responses than did high school girls.
(15) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(16) All the same, it's hard to approach the school, which charges nearly £28,000 for boarders and nearly £19,000 for day girls and is sometimes called "the girls' Eton", without a few prejudices.
(17) She has imbued me with the confidence of encouraging other girls to dream alternative futures that do not rely on FGM as a prerequisite.
(18) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
(19) According to perimeter of leg, 13% of these girl students might he considered affected of second degree malnutrition, this situation prevailed from 13 to 18 years of age, but was not true in the 12--year--old group.
(20) The controversy about "fasting girls" and the all-dominating diagnosis of neurasthenia may explain the delay in the American interest in the new disorder.