tigress
IPA: tˈaɪgrɛs
noun
- A female tiger; a she-tiger.
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Examples of "tigress" in Sentences
- Her mother began to shrivel while Naomi swayed like a tigress.
- Left, a tigress waded through a river in the Sundarbans, near Kolkata, Feb. 24, 2010.
- There were many of them, and one recent one where a tigress had reached for his shoulder and gone down to the bone.
- Maxwell deftly paints Phyllis as the rich, suburban housewife, but makes damn sure we can see the tigress that once ensnared Ben.
- They had recently been married, that is, the tigress had chosen the tiger as her husband -- for in the jungle it is usually the wife who chooses the husband.
- The latter even saves the aforementioned speed-dating sequence -- an artifact from a 2000 TV sitcom -- with the line, "Face it, tigress -- you just hit the jackpot."
- Although compared to Medea, Medusa and Circe, Lumley seems more angry pussycat than classical tigress; but she does deliver Goldman's one-liners with the right snap, crackle and pop, and suggests a devious mind at work.
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