Ingenues is an English word. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Ingenues meaning
plural of ingenue
Using Ingenues
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of ingenue
Context around Ingenues
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ingenues
- In this selection, "ingenues" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, countless stand out and add context to how "ingenues" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include like countless ingenues not a and preference for ingenues. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ingenues" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ingenues
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Carpenter also criticized Bogdanovich for his "puerile preference for ingenues". (10 words)
She doesn’t quite fit the standard archetypes for women in country: not a Southern belle like countless ingenues, not a brash spitfire like Miranda Lambert, not a maternal elder like Dolly or Reba. (34 words)
She doesn’t quite fit the standard archetypes for women in country: not a Southern belle like countless ingenues, not a brash spitfire like Miranda Lambert, not a maternal elder like Dolly or Reba. (34 words)
Carpenter also criticized Bogdanovich for his "puerile preference for ingenues". (10 words)
Example sentences (2)
She doesn’t quite fit the standard archetypes for women in country: not a Southern belle like countless ingenues, not a brash spitfire like Miranda Lambert, not a maternal elder like Dolly or Reba.
Carpenter also criticized Bogdanovich for his "puerile preference for ingenues".