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How to use belle in a sentence

27 example sentences · noun

Belle means an attractive woman. Example: “In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.”

Examples of belle by meaning

nounAn attractive woman.

  • In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.

More sentences with belle

  • She was the particular belle of the party.From the entry particular
  • "En avant, ma belle sabreuse!" shouts Tintin into the teeth of the wind.2006, Louise Mushikiwabo with Jack Kramer, Rwanda Means the Universe, St. Martins Press, page 143. From the entry belle sabreuse
  • Belle came out of her dark place to show Sam her necklace.1997, Lauran Paine, The White Bird, Thorndike, M.E.: Thorndike Press; Bath, Somerset: Chivers Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry naja
  • Among these cultured hostesses, a leading figure in the belle époque was the Comtesse de Greffulhe.1973, Raymond Rudorff, The Belle Époque: Paris in the Nineties, Saturday Review Press, page 240. From the entry belle époque
  • Most of us have heard of la belle indifférence of the French neurologists.1942, Arthur Guirdham, Disease and the Social System, READ BOOKS, published 2007, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry la belle indifférence
  • She was a joke to the village wits and a byword to the village belles.1921, Collier's, page 3. From the entry wallflower
  • “Isn’t it fascinating?” says Guilfoyle, 49, about her journey from belle of the Bay Area to princess of MAGAland.2018 August 22, Sarah Ellison, Dan Zak, “Kimberly Guilfoyle was once compared to Jackie Kennedy. Now she’s basically a Trump.”, in The…. From the entry MAGAland
  • For a festive dinner, the belles pull out the stops.2017 June 30, Ruth La Ferla, “In ‘The Beguiled,’ Pretty Confections Whipped Up to Seduce”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry taffeta
  • You're the belle of the ball, and these are all your swains, hoping for a glimpse of ankle.2016 Zack Woods (as Donald "Jared" Dunn), "Founder Friendly", Silicon Valley episode 19. From the entry swain
  • It was the same way across the country, as Sarah Morgan, a young Baton Rouge belle, wrote in her diary.2015, Kathryn Canavan, Lincoln's Final Hours: Conspiracy, Terror, and the Assassination of America's Greatest President, University Press…. From the entry secesh
  • "La belle Genièvre" could have been performed on a similar stage, although a Renaissance monoscene is also possible and even likely.2007, Virginia Scott, Sara Sturm-Maddox, Performance, Poetry and Politics on the Queen's Day: Catherine de Médicis and Pierre de Ronsard…. From the entry monoscene
  • La belle indifférence should be abandoned as a clinical sign until both its definition and its utility have been clarified.2006, Stone J, Smyth R, Carson A, Warlow C. La belle indifférence in conversion symptoms and hysteria: Systematic review. British Journal…. From the entry la belle indifference
  • However, my personal brand of burlesque owes more to the fabulous showgirls of la belle époque in Paris.2006 March 25, Dita Von Teese [pseudonym; Heather Renée Sweet], “A brief history of burlesque”, in The Independent, London: Independent…. From the entry la belle époque
  • Her friend threw the novels rather a longing look, then turned strongmindedly to the cabinet of belles lettres.2004, Nicola Humble, The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity, and Bohemianism, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry strongmindedly
  • A propos te belles, savre-fous que l’être après timain que notre prital te bourgeois épouse la fille de monsir Goternitz?2004 [1743], Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by Christopher Kelly, “The Prisoners of War”, in Letter to d’Alembert and Writings for the…. From the entry monsir
  • The girls look like Southern belles or Cinderellas.1988 May 16, Melissa Merlie, “Dancing the night away”, in Chillicothe Gazette, volume 189, number 39, Chillicothe, Ohio, page 1B, column 2. From the entry cinderella
  • But she was not even what in those years was called une belle laide, being neither feminine, nor soft, nor submissive.1979, Peter Drucker, The Man Who Invented Kissinger, John Wiley, published 1997, page 143. From the entry belle laide
  • All this jingoistic bombast, however, was directed toward defending, not so much the national vernacular as the national belles lettres.[1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, chapter 14, in The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC, § 2, page 86. From the entry jingoistic
  • They embody what Henry James called “the palpable, imaginable, visitable past” — in this case, la belle époque as if frozen in amber.2018 February 2, Walter Nicklin, “In the Czech Republic, Habsburg family homes offer a haunting glimpse into history”, in The Washington…. From the entry la belle époque
  • The available evidence does not support the use of la belle indifférence to discriminate between conversion symptoms and symptoms of organic disease.2006, Stone J, Smyth R, Carson A, Warlow C. La belle indifférence in conversion symptoms and hysteria: Systematic review. British Journal…. From the entry la belle indifference
  • In the hands of a skillful writer, the South's colorful cast of genteel aristocrats, coquettish belles, devoted mammies, and rumptious hill folk could be enchanting.1988, Daniel E. Sutherland, The Confederate Carpetbaggers, Baton Rouge, L.A.; London: Louisiana State University Press, →ISBN, page 259. From the entry rumptious
  • The synthetic belle wins the prize and her creators are eating high off the hog until the nation’s Press demands a look at the original.1934, Time, Volume 24, p. 68. From the entry high on the hog
  • Curiously enough, the other example in this field also dates back to an age when pensters found their widest audience only in belles lettres.1920, Printers' Ink, volume 111, page 34. From the entry penster
  • It is gay Paree of la belle époque, Gustav Eiffel and the Impressionists, not the hamburger-chained Champs-Elysées, Arc de McTriomphe and tawdry, all-too-tawdry Follies of today.2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 139. From the entry Paree
  • Long before the slinky Miss Shields was a twinkle in her mama’s eye, nothing came between erstwhile Southern belle Elsa Jane Guerin and her dudely duds.1992, Autumn Stephens, Wild Women. From the entry dudely
  • On the dark-green walls hung a series of eight engravings, portraits of early Victorian belles, clad in lace and tarletan ball dresses, clipped from an old Book of Beauty.1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The…. From the entry hang

Meaning of belle

  1. noun An attractive woman.
  2. noun A fellow gay man.

Full definition of belle

Questions about belle in a sentence

How do you use belle in a sentence?
Belle is used as a noun. For example: “In her new dress she felt like the belle of the ball.”
What is a short sentence with belle?
“She was the particular belle of the party.”
What does belle mean?
Belle means an attractive woman.

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