How to Use damsel in a Sentence

damsel

noun

• Princess Peach is the archetype of the damsel in distress.
  — Gene Park, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2022
• Best of all, there isn’t a damsel in distress in sight.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024
• Why does Peach—why does this damsel—get to be the real hero?
  — WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
• Bob is a dude in distress and your gal pal is in damsel-to-the-rescue mode.
  — Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2019
• Hampered with a leg injury, the plucky Alex gets to be the damsel in distress.
  — Katie Walsh, kansascity, 5 Oct. 2017
• Swann spends a shocking amount of the movie being damsel-ed yet again.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• Now that Marienne is a damsel again, Joe loves her once more.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2021
• She gets locked in a tower but isn't a damsel in distress.
  — Hannah Kerns, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2023
• Old screams are not so scary — that damsel-in-distress stuff doesn’t play now.
  — Melena Ryzik, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2020
• The film’s heroes may not be so heroic and the damsels may not be in much distress.
  — Mark Olsen, latimes.com, 27 June 2018
• Katharine Hepburn seems too strong to play a damsel in distress.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 5 June 2017
• Gone are the days of damsels in distress waiting for Prince Charming to save them.
  — Todd Plummer, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2023
• The damsel in distress who trips over air in an action movie or the nerd who can never get the girl.
  — Kourtney Pope, refinery29.com, 7 July 2022
• These are no damsels in distress; these are femmes in control.
  — Jake Smith, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2023
• Name a doomed damsel, and a swath of grungy blue is sure to be plastered somewhere nearby.
  — Emily Leibert, Allure, 25 Jan. 2024
• Princess Peach was the classic damsel in distress throughout most of the game series.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2023
• Its title is a bit ironic — who is the real damsel here?
  — Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, 14 Dec. 2018
• As per the logline, the film follows a damsel (Brown) who agrees to marry a prince (Nick Robinson).
  — Caroline Brew, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
• Smith always wanted to be Superman, the kind of hero who could swoop in and save the damsel in distress.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
• The former damsels, now inspired by the text, all try to change their respective stores, set to the soundtrack of Spears’ pop hits.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 21 Aug. 2023
• Which brings us to Queenie: a damsel who has never been in distress or in need of rescue.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 June 2021
• But this tale isn’t an account of some distressed damsel who gets swept up in the underworld.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
• Forget the romantic trope of the knightly rescue of a damsel in a tower.
  — Tina Brown, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• In the old tales, Siya was depicted as one such damsel, betrothed to the warrior Maadi.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2021
• Newton sure is fun as Bad Millie, who can turn on the damsel-in-distress act when the Butcher needs to get out of a tight spot.
  — Katie Walsh, chicagotribune.com, 11 Nov. 2020
• Princess Peach started out as a boring damsel in distress.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• Mallory's knights and damsels, Lerner and Loewe's great tunes.
  — Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2017
• Oh, and the film can’t resist damsel-ing Wai Lin twice in the film’s submarine-set action climax.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• Mulligan still does her best to imbue damsel with a deeper melancholy, but the script doesn’t give her much to work with.
  — Janey Tracey, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• But the damsel isn’t in distress, the monster isn’t so bad, and some raunchy jokes may go over kids’ heads (but will likely delight parents).
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024