How to Use debutante in a Sentence

debutante

noun
  • The buzz: This is a top-heavy group with the two 2019 finalists, the U.S. and the Netherlands, matched with a pair of debutantes.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
  • The Bengals are the debutante, coming out a year before the ball.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 Jan. 2022
  • All the better to hunt down 5th avenue in—punks and debutantes alike.
    Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Sep. 2014
  • The most notable debutantes from the tech sector were left out in the cold during the market’s hot run.
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2020
  • This was a fancy debutante ball, and things were rather more proper.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Designers from New York would come, and debutantes of the area would act as their models.
    Grace Dickinson, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
  • The lives of high schoolers, a debutante and others overlap in a dying 1950s Texas town.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The ultimate in social power, the ever-coiffed queen can make or break the chances of a young debutante with a word.
    Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 6 May 2023
  • The timing couldn’t be better for Uber and its fellow debutantes.
    Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
  • To close out the five-run lead in the ninth, Molitor called on major league debutante Trevor Hildenberger.
    Billy Heyen, cleveland.com, 24 June 2017
  • Vietnam climbed one spot to No. 32, the highest-ranking ever for the World Cup debutante.
    Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
  • Also part of the night was Anya and her fellow debutantes dancing a waltz with OIC members.
    Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Mortimer was a blond Southern debutante who had married the heir to an oil fortune.
    Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • That first portrait depicts a shy fresh-faced debutante.
    Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 15 Dec. 2019
  • The Philippines became the first World Cup debutante at this tournament to secure a win.
    Sean Gregory, Time, 26 July 2023
  • The day has finally come for Belly to become a debutante.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 19 June 2022
  • Shannon Harvey, co-chair, shared that the girls who are involved to the ball today are called honorees rather than debutantes.
    Alyssa Alfano, cleveland.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • While at sea the ruggedly handsome athlete worked out on rowing machines during the day and kicked up his heels with the debutantes on the dance floor at night.
    Meryl Gordon, Town & Country, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The nightclub singer has a crush on the stockbroker, who’s in love with the debutante, who’s engaged to an English aristocrat.
    Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
  • New Zealand, meanwhile, won a game for the first time in six World Cups, then promptly lost to the Philippines, a tournament debutante.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Then the issue would come down to their comparative margins against the debutantes.
    John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2023
  • Tall and slender, her golden hair piled on top of her head, many commented on her beauty as a debutante.
    Susan Butler, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Renouard revived Le Bal in the 1990s as a kind of update to the historic debutante balls that had taken place centuries before.
    Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Club debutantes and members also waltzed, with members then waltzing with their wives or dates.
    Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2018
  • By the 1920s and into the Depression, the media was paying close attention to debutantes.
    Bob Morris, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2017
  • That could happen again in the opener against Vietnam, a World Cup debutante who lost 9-0 to Spain in its final tournament tune-up.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2023
  • Like Wharton’s famed debutante, Ivy aims to marry into wealth.
    Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Amdam likens them to the classic optical illusion (shown on the right) which depicts both a young debutante and an old crone.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2012
  • In the visual, Rodrigo rocks a black dress, jagged bangs and deep red lipstick, sticking out in a group of debutantes sporting delicate white gowns.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Despite the thwarting efforts of her rival debutantes, Maxine arrives at the ball with an exclamation point, draped in a white zibeline gown adorned with silver beads and shells.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 14 June 2024

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