Sentence examples for ladylike way from inspiring English sources

The suffragettes "chose to embrace femininity in their dress, because they were monstered for being unnatural and mannish, and to counterbalance that they had a deliberate tactic of dressing in a conventional, ladylike way.

Second, in her ladylike way, Vreeland constantly deflected credit away from herself: "Never say 'I,' always say 'we,' " she declared in her book-length essay on the perception of beauty, "Allure" (recently brought back into print).

Often photographed in profile, she also posed for Mr. Penn's well-known 1951 image "Girl With Tobacco on Tongue," a sitting that required Mrs. Russell to flick a bit of cigarette tobacco off her tongue repeatedly, in a ladylike way, of course.

Tucking her eyes behind the crook of her elbow, playing peekaboo with the hoop, she lifted her 6-foot-3-inch frame off the floor on a surgically repaired leg and palmed the ball just tight enough to shove it down the throat of the net -- in a ladylike way, of course.

But, of course, she did so in the most ladylike way possible.

"The bags and shoes will be paired together in a very ladylike way," says Bruksch. "I love the idea of bringing that back".

But if the women manage to get over their disbelief at being labeled bullies, acceptance of ladylike ways is harder.

Dress in a ladylike fashion.

"She has this very ladylike, quite queenly way of holding herself.

Wini likes to disrupt the status quo with color and the juxtaposition of graphic elements, and she does it in a very ladylike and elegant way.

But here the Queen makes her way with ladylike decorum to what she assumes is her daughter's corpse; her subsequent display of pallid, polite royal grief is bland.