How to Use virginal in a Sentence

virginal

adjective

• The land is still in its virginal state.
• The character, in Zegler’s view, shouldn’t be so virginal and pure and, well, flat and one-note.
  — Hunter Harris, Town & Country, 25 Aug. 2021
• The goal is to secure virginal brides rather than to seek new converts to Islam.
  — Fox News, 29 Dec. 2020
• On the Faroe Islands, virginal women once had to throw a stone, a bone, and a clump of dirt at a crow for some reason.
  — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
• Miss Lansbury endows Sibyl Vane, the songstress with virginal charm.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• Jane Birkin famously wore a virginal white crop top sans bra while on the arm of Serge Gainsbourg.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 5 July 2017
• The third persona, the Blonde, is a symbol, the pure and virginal creature of fairy tales and religious parables.
  — Elaine Showalter, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2020
• Only this time the tutu is no longer virginal white but mermaid green.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 1 June 2018
• Few seemed willing to forgive her for being a spoiled, non-virginal nymphet.
  — Stacy Schiff, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2021
• The virginal bobby-soxer Newton-John had been playing was now in pumps and skintight black pants.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2022
• A white, virginal off-the-shoulder Vivienne Westwood dress.
  — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 2 May 2017
• Cox’s Peggy is a dervish of dance energy wrapped up in a virginal package.
  — Robert W. Butler, kansascity, 3 May 2017
• The new property sits on a virginal lagoon on the west coast of the island, which is known for its coconut-colored sand and wild horses.
  — Sarah Khan Kathryn Romeyn Sarah Khan Chris Schalkx Chris Schalkx Michaela Trimble, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2022
• What may surprise today’s audience is the lack of virginal white.
  — Alexandra Genova, Time, 23 June 2017
• Gus, one of the liberated enslaved, in the uniform of the Union Army, loiters outside the house of the virginal southern belle Flora and follows her to the woods.
  — Colin Grant, The New York Review of Books, 23 Apr. 2020
• Lydia’s castoff, to the mutual delight of the nervous bride-to-be and her virginal fiance, Dandu.
  — Washington Post, 3 May 2021
• From the very first scene I was hypnotized by the unusual Earthy brown base with golden highlights, and the ultra-long, virginal waves.
  — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Oct. 2017
• So, your hymen is not a good way to determine virginal status.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 4 Oct. 2018
• This became a clear trend and message over the course of a decade, fueled by pop culture stars: young women and girls needed to stay virginal to succeed.
  — Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 8 Nov. 2021
• This became a clear trend and message over the course of a decade, fuelled by pop culture stars: young women and girls needed to stay virginal to succeed.
  — Danielle Campoamor, refinery29.com, 2 July 2021
• Before having her first litter, a virginal rat doesn’t enjoy the presence of pesky rat babies in the slightest.
  — Dina Litovsky, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• The music ends, and here is Adriene, in virginal braids, sitting on a pillow in a T-shirt and leggings, petting her napping dog, Benji.
  — Sandra Tsing Loh, The Atlantic, 12 June 2020
• From there one, the idea of pure evil and the most ubiquitous representation of good, a virginal babysitter, a young girl with dreams of romance and goodness in her heart.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 28 Aug. 2021
• Men are gang members, and women are either virginal or spitfires.
  — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
• That went double for the moon, whose virginal glow is nicely sanitizing in this context.
  — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• Curtain Call: Was a real-life virginal Janet at my performance?
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 May 2017
• Centered between the virginal chalice on the one hand and the voluptuous citrons on the other, the dark, bottomless, pucker invites what is sometimes known as the male gaze.
  — Jonathan Gold, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2019
• By sticking our heads in the sand and saying Jefferson was this virginal God-like person who never did anything wrong, that’s just silly.
  — Farah Stockman, New York Times, 16 June 2018
• The expression emphasizes the paradox of being old and yet still virginal and unmarried.
  — Amy Froide, The Conversation, 2 Dec. 2019
• Two rich, diabolical step-siblings make a bet that involves sleeping with the new headmaster's virginal daughter.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 13 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024