How to Use debutante in a Sentence

debutante

noun
  • This was a fancy debutante ball, and things were rather more proper.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
  • All the better to hunt down 5th avenue in—punks and debutantes alike.
    — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Sep. 2014
  • In Season 1, Han donned a red dress at the debutante ball.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The Bengals are the debutante, coming out a year before the ball.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Notice the tattoo on the little debutante’s neck.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
  • The most notable debutantes from the tech sector were left out in the cold during the market’s hot run.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Club debutantes and members also waltzed, with members then waltzing with their wives or dates.
    — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • The timing couldn’t be better for Uber and its fellow debutantes.
    — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The debutante on the receiving end mostly just keeps smiling.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Mortimer was a blond Southern debutante who had married the heir to an oil fortune.
    — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • Tall and slender, her golden hair piled on top of her head, many commented on her beauty as a debutante.
    — Susan Butler, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The ultimate in social power, the ever-coiffed queen can make or break the chances of a young debutante with a word.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 6 May 2023
  • Then the issue would come down to their comparative margins against the debutantes.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
  • Designers from New York would come, and debutantes of the area would act as their models.
    — Grace Dickinson, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
  • The building was popular with debutantes.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Shannon Harvey, co-chair, shared that the girls who are involved to the ball today are called honorees rather than debutantes.
    — Alyssa Alfano, cleveland.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Amdam likens them to the classic optical illusion (shown on the right) which depicts both a young debutante and an old crone.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2012
  • So many years ago, the one-time debutante exchanged a life of high-society for a more modest one of love and accomplishment.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Cape Verde, Curaçao and Jordan are also among the debutantes.
    — Amna Subhan, AJC.com, 9 June 2026
  • The queen bee of Constance Billard is crashing debutante season.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 1 Oct. 2024
  • While at sea the ruggedly handsome athlete worked out on rowing machines during the day and kicked up his heels with the debutantes on the dance floor at night.
    — Meryl Gordon, Town & Country, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Of course, her parents' love story did somewhat heighten the stakes of the occasion, the debutante admits.
    — Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 9 Dec. 2024
  • In fact, on a national stage, 2017 felt like natural wine’s year-long debutante ball.
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker now have a daughter who’s a debutante!
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The style hasn’t just been limited to campaign trail reporting, but has spread to stories on fashion, debutante balls — and even dog shows.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025
  • To close out the five-run lead in the ninth, Molitor called on major league debutante Trevor Hildenberger.
    — Billy Heyen, cleveland.com, 24 June 2017
  • In 1910, a nineteen-year-old girl began to plan out her outfit for the upcoming debutante ball.
    — Molly Peck, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The music begins and 160 debutantes and their escorts in four rows stroll in a slow graceful procession.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The lives of high schoolers, a debutante and others overlap in a dying 1950s Texas town.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • In a show where people cheat, choose colleges based on their latest hookups, and punch each other during debutante balls, disagreement strikes often.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2025

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