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Recent Examples of senorita
Love the artwork on your book cover, with the dangerous looking senorita along with freaky birds and trees you're known for.
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Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 19 Dec. 2019
Football managers reared their boogie heads once again this term when a video surfaced of Pep Guardiola doing his best at courting the attentions of a Spanish senorita.
—SI.com, 6 June 2019
The cakes are filled with margarita butter cream and covered with vanilla butter cream and decorated like a pretty Mexican senorita’s skirt.
—Erica Boniface, The Know, 2 May 2017
Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 19 Dec. 2019
Football managers reared their boogie heads once again this term when a video surfaced of Pep Guardiola doing his best at courting the attentions of a Spanish senorita.
—SI.com, 6 June 2019
The cakes are filled with margarita butter cream and covered with vanilla butter cream and decorated like a pretty Mexican senorita’s skirt.
—Erica Boniface, The Know, 2 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for senorita
Noun
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There’s no need to sing a song of a lass that is gone.—
Lincee Ray,
EW.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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That's absolutely the wildest way to welcome a lass to your city.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Paul takes a local gal to his hotel room for a nightcap, which inspires the gal’s husband to take a chair to Paul’s head.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
10 Mar. 2025
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Thanks to all involved for allowing a set-in-her ways old gal to keep her fence.—
Ticked Off,
Orlando Sentinel,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This cake type was the sort fed to train and trench weary doughboys by Great War doughnut lassies (or doughnut dollies, depending) and flour, baking powder, sugar, and lard were all in good supply for the duration.—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
19 Dec. 2024
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Here’s your chance, lads and lassies, to snap up a historic home in Scotland from one of the United States’ most beloved musicians.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
20 Sep. 2023
Noun
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The movie leans heavily into a popular action-movie convention: a damsel in distress.—
John DeVore,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
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And then, of course, there’s Jenny, whose unwillingness to be a damsel in distress lends an extra punch to the story’s third act.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Its maiden and hero product, Rested, hones in on sleep as the fundamental step to optimizing cognitive and immune function.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Their violence — in medieval bestiaries, unicorns are regularly said to have beef with elephants and take them down by goring their bellies — is contrasted with their gentleness towards maidens and innate understanding of purity.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The sassy Southern belle was known for her fashion, knack for art history and on-and-off relationship (but eventually very on) with Dwayne Wayne.—
Emily Krauser,
People.com,
23 Feb. 2025
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One of the most popular rooms at the event was the mirrored ballet belle of the ball setup.—
Kristen Bateman,
Vogue,
8 Mar. 2025
Noun
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He’s shown sitting in an armchair next to his similarly dressed daughter, who is giving him a handful of flowers; just behind them is a maid placing a basket of fruit.—
Francesca Aton,
ARTnews.com,
24 Mar. 2025
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At the time of her killing, Curran was working part time as a maid at the local Colonial Motor Inn, which, according to VTDigger, is located near Bundy’s birthplace in Burlington.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
23 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Ally and Jay’s rom-com caricature is the cleverest subplot in the movie — the pair are heightened Hallmark Channel ingenues who like fiddly coffee orders, coordinated plaids and the same shade of taupe.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2025
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As Marya, the daughter of Ann and the mayor, Chinna Palmer has to be a romantic ingenue in a story where true romance is impossible.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
26 Mar. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Senorita.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senorita. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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