How to Use huntress in a Sentence

huntress

noun
  • Feyre is a 19-year-old huntress who kills a wolf in the woods.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
  • Roberts is the face of Chasseresse, which means huntress in French.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Striking six-foot-tall huntress Haley Fitzgerald of Spruced Plume hunts to eat.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Here’s the page about Atalanta, the huntress of Greek mythology who killed any suitor who could not defeat her in a race.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The protagonist is a huntress who agrees to travel to a magical realm with a faerie lord, in exchange for her family's safety.
    — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Zhang is Milva, a human adopted by the dryads of Brokilon Forest who is a fierce and talented huntress.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Zhang is Milva, a human adopted by the dryads of Brokilon Forest who is a fierce and talented huntress.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Apr. 2022
  • Pure Evil dispatches Fianna (Rachel House), a huntress who shoots fire lasers from her eyes, to secure the map by any means necessary.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
  • What was new in Fitzgerald’s treatment was that the aggressors often were young women, chaste huntresses making conquests one after another.
    — Sam Tanenhaus, New Republic, 31 May 2017
  • Digital scavenging, however, is just one of the unapologetic bargain huntress's methods.
    — Kathleen Hackett, ELLE Decor, 16 Feb. 2012
  • Yet even as Daisy Ridley acts with a wary urgency, the upshot is that Helena, raised not by wolves but by a kind of human wolf, is supposed to be a huntress to her bones.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
  • In the first story, 19-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, only to be dragged to a treacherous magical land by a beast-like creature who demands retribution.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Best known for its lovely music, written in 1876 by Leo Delibes, the ballet conveys the story of a mythical huntress' love for a mortal shepherd.
    — Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Marie-Aurore de Saxe, a French noblewoman and freethinker, was painted in the guise of Diana, the huntress, wearing a leopard-print gown with billowing sleeves and a plunging bosom.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • An unconventional friendship with the rebellious, daring huntress Sely supports her journey to self-realisation and acceptance.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Apr. 2026

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