Examples of adventuress in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Jenna Coleman, already a veteran of storied nerd franchise Doctor Who, will play Lady Johanna Constantine, an 18th-century occult adventuress and ancestor of John Constantine. — Christian Holub, EW.com, 26 May 2021 Noelline is judged a successful adventuress, but Pianon is thought a double fool for having taken her back. — Andrea Lee, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020 Lewd women, bawds and adventuresses were not welcome in courts, nor were prostitutes or immoral characters. — Clement Knox, Time, 4 Feb. 2020 In 1871 an English adventuress named Lucy Walker became the first woman to summit the mountain. — Mark Jenkins, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2019 Freya, for her part, approaches the perils of travel with the gusto of a Victorian adventuress. — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019 Wallis was seen as a vulgar American adventuress, while Meghan is perceived as a career woman who isn’t afraid to admit her mistakes and move on. — Daisy Goodwin, Time, 17 May 2018 Montez really was an adventuress, a bicontinental courtesan, while Menken was first and foremost a performer and an artist. — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2018

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