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How to use lioness in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Lioness means a female lion (animal). Example: “The lioness has to creep up behind her prey so as not to be noticed.”

Examples of lioness by meaning

nounA female lion (animal).

  • Residents on the south-western outskirts of Berlin are being urged to stay indoors after overnight sightings of a “loose, dangerous animal”, suspected to be an escaped lioness.2023 July 20, Philip Oltermann, “Lioness believed to be on loose in Berlin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Aug...

nounA female lion (famous person regarded with interest and curiosity).

  • The Middlesbrough Labour MP, Stuart Bell, a political and personal friend, said: "Mo was a lioness both in terms of the Labour party and politics nationally.2005 August 19, James Sturcke, quoting Stuart Bell, “Mowlam a political ‘lioness’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on...
  • “She was a lioness.”2023 October 6, “Memorial honors trailblazing senator Dianne Feinstein: ‘She was a lioness’”, in The Guardian, sourced from Associated...

More sentences with lioness

  • The lioness has to creep up behind her prey so as not to be noticed.From the entry creep up
  • The lioness was a mother of four cubs.From the entry mother
  • The lioness roared to scare off the hyenas.From the entry roar
  • Watch the lioness prowling in the shrubbery for zebras.From the entry prowl
  • The next day in Boyztown I spotted an old bull tongue kissing a young male Cambodian lioness.2019, Luke Williams, Down and Out in Paradise: East, West, Sex, Death, Echo, →ISBN. From the entry Boyztown
  • A lioness on the prowl made for a tense dung safari.2015, Caitlin O’Connell, “Baying at a Testosterone-Filled Moon”, in Elephant Don: The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse, Chicago, Ill.…. From the entry musthy
  • Not thirty paces behind the two she crouched--Sabor, the huge lioness--lashing her tail.1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as…. From the entry noiselessly
  • A while later, Smokey returned to the water hole with his musthy deliberations, as a lazy lioness roared to the east.2015, Caitlin O’Connell, “Baying at a Testosterone-Filled Moon”, in Elephant Don: The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse, Chicago, Ill.…. From the entry musthy
  • The lioness population of this diamond is especially pampered by these famous lady gods, stimulating the feminine mystique.1973, Owen S. Rachleff, Sky Diamonds: The New Astrology, Hawthorn Books, page 188. From the entry supergoddess
  • Once a monitor lizard lashed its tail at the face of a lioness and she woofed as she jumped back.1972, George B[eals] Schaller, “Behavior within the Group”, in The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator–Prey Relations (Wildlife Behavior…. From the entry woof
  • Sabor, the lioness, was a wise hunter.1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as…. From the entry shriek
  • The host is not surprised; it has happened before: the lionesses must have come down to quench their thirst their feasting had given them.1991, Nadine Gordimer, “Spoils”, in Jump and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 174. From the entry pug
  • “What I don’t see is,” he said, “why we had to go through all this rigmarole with you dressing up as a pantomime lioness and changing clothes and everything.2018, Ronald McGowan, The Return of the Achaeans, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry pharaohess
  • The use of -ess(e) to form the nouns of female animals spread after the introduction of lioness and gave rise, by analogy, to the nonce-word dovess.[2015, Elena Sasu, Nicolas Trapateau, “Inkhorn Terms: Some that Got Away. Middle English Words Ending in -ess(e)”, in Fabienne Toupin…. From the entry wolfess
  • Old lionesses and baboonesses live for only a few years after they stop reproducing, long enough just to ensure that their last-born offspring receive the mothering they need.2009, David P. Barash, Judith Eve Lipton, “[The Menopause Mystery] Good Grandmothers, Part I”, in How Women Got Their Curves and Other…. From the entry babooness
  • As Leonie, she obviously loves Morgan, but how can you have a life with a man who keeps seeing you as a gazelle or a lioness or zebress?1967 January 15, Dick Benke, “Movie Review: ‘Morgan’; Reality, Fantasy Get All Mixed Up”, in Independent Star-News, Pasadena, Calif., page…. From the entry zebress
  • In Sacramento a crazed woman opened the cages of a circus menagerie for fear the animals might starve to death, and had been mauled by a lioness.1949, Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides. From the entry menagerie

Meaning of lioness

  1. noun A female lion (animal).
  2. noun A female lion (famous person regarded with interest and curiosity).
  3. noun A female visitor to a student at Oxford, especially during commemoration week.

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Questions about lioness in a sentence

How do you use lioness in a sentence?
Lioness is used as a noun. For example: “The lioness has to creep up behind her prey so as not to be noticed.”
What is a short sentence with lioness?
““She was a lioness.””
What does lioness mean?
Lioness means a female lion (animal).

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