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
  • But there may have been occasions when the queen has tried, in her own queenly way, to score a point for feminism.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Her death also allows the narrator to emerge and to reveal her queenly rank.
    — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Half this spring’s university graduates are likely to live to a queenly 100-years-old.
    — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Within these walls the queen could take a break from her queenly duties, entertain her coterie of closest confidantes, and play with her children.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 17 July 2023
  • Just getting to see the queenly Williams in the Queen City seemed enough for many in the crowd, which robustly cheered each of her winners.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 5 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Bronze Age cemetery likely held highborn warriors, contemporaries of Ulysses, but perhaps a queenly mother lay among them.
    — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
  • 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
  • The actress, who starred as Sorsha in 1988's Willow and returns as an older, queenly version of the character in the new Disney+ series, is delighted to be back in the fantasy world.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2022

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