How to Use cotillion in a Sentence

cotillion

noun

• Send her to an SEC game, a crawfish boil, and maybe a cotillion.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• The cotillion is all about push and pull, and tension and release.
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 11 Feb. 2020
• For many who grow up in the South, cotillion classes are a rite of passage.
  — Betsy Cribb, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2018
• Longer by an eighth-of-a-mile than the Pegasus, the Derby is the crowded debut cotillion of the nation’s finest 3-year-old debutantes.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• The Williams sisters were outsiders, in obvious ways — Black girls from the public courts of Compton, crashing a cotillion of a sport.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2022
• The scuffle occurred at a meeting of the local cotillion club, which promotes good manners.
  — Joseph Cranney, ProPublica, 27 Nov. 2019
• Punk was fading, but club culture was rising, with parties like Blitz its cotillions.
  — Matthew Schneier, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2018
• Committee members of the cotillion and past alumni will host a social distance parade to crown the 2020 Miss Cotillion.
  — Briana Rice, Cincinnati.com, 1 May 2020
• The cotillion is the culmination of this program, which also includes fundraising for the charity of their choice.
  — Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• In lieu of a debutante cotillion or other social ritual, the coming-out of my hair would mark my transition from girl to teenager.
  — Michaela Angela Davis, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2022
• Others have to explain that cotillions are not the kind of grueling social warfare portrayed on Gossip Girl.
  — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2017
• But when that sportsmanship becomes too polite, too nice, too fretted over, then basketball can turn into a freaking cotillion, and who wants that?
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
• But the player who stayed for the Wimbledon ball, sure departed unfashionably early from this cotillion.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• For children, cotillion is another place where the manners and etiquette that Mama teaches at home can be publicly practiced and reinforced.
  — Betsy Cribb, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2018
• By the 1920s, Greek life had become a way for wealthy Southern belles like Zelda Fitzgerald to escape the restraints (literally and figuratively) of cotillion corsetry.
  — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Sep. 2021
• Each required enough multiples to show different stages of destruction—something Daman had to do for Blair’s cotillion dress in the original Gossip Girl—which is no small feat for any costume department.
  — Tyler McCall, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Nov. 2022
• Also cotillion dresses in silver and emerald green and evening gowns encrusted in three-dimensional metallic blooms.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• The execution scene, its appalling cruelty cloaked in ceremony, bears a grotesque resemblance to the presentation of debutantes at a cotillion ball.
  — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021
• The heroine’s mother, Eunice ( Erica Gimpel ), presides over a Harlem finishing school that prepares proper little girls for cotillion.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
• White dresses are a must for baptisms/confirmation, cotillions, debutante balls, high school AND college graduations, and finally, weddings.
  — Hannah Norling, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
• Their deliverance — a joyous disco-drag cotillion of sorts — is twofold: a challenge to the expectations of tragedy inside the play and a hopeful take on intolerance about gender expression, vulnerability and sexuality outside of it.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2022

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024