How to Use matron in a Sentence

matron

noun
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  • But a school matron at the entrance said his shoes didn’t pass the dress code.
    — David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2021
  • The matron cooked the dishes and placed each one before me.
    — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2019
  • There was the matron-of-honor outfit for her and bridesmaid gowns for the girls.
    — Michelle Singletary, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
  • Now the story of Rosengren’s Books’ last matron has come to an end.
    — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Hipsters and matrons alike come here in search of vintage items and tchotchkes.
    — Michelle Newman, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2018
  • The matron hands off a large bottle with three glasses.
    — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The matron told reporters that her life had been ruined.
    — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2018
  • But this is challenged when the school’s matron divides them.
    — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The girls would sing and dance together to pass the time until a strict matron approached.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
  • There's also a doctor on site and two live-in matrons, one of whom is from Chibok.
    — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 11 May 2017
  • Williamson, 66, has been a confidante of Oprah’s and of Upper East Side matrons for more than two decades.
    — Laura M. Holson, Town & Country, 2 July 2019
  • Lana asked the police matron, who stared back with a blank expression on her face.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The matron bounced from group to group, laughing, juggling trays and dishes and glasses.
    — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Ball served as the matron-of-honor at Cook's wedding to Tom Troupe, to whom she was married from 1964 until her death.
    — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Sara Petersen, sister of the bride, served as the matron of honor with the nieces of the bride, Ellie and Rylie Petersen, serving as the flower girls.
    — Courant Community, 31 July 2017
  • The matron shuffles away, clearly not wanting to miss dinner, and Olivia steps into the dorm.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 June 2021
  • The women were invasively body-searched by matrons who first dipped their gloved hands in Lysol.
    — Penelope Green, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
  • Nighy is her crusty neighbor — a straight line of a man who loves books, but not people — and Clarkson is a society matron opposed to the shop.
    — Moira MacDonald, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2018
  • Jacqueline Frost, 60, was raised by her Ute aunt, a matron at the boarding school who embraced the system and became its enforcer.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2021
  • Boys were kicking soccer balls in the plazas, matrons were drinking the local gin in outdoor cafes, and the shops were stocked with regional crafts.
    — Raphael Kadushin, WSJ, 25 July 2017
  • Freed from those mermaid waves, the hairstyle of choice of countless 50-ish moms, Lovato looks freer and younger, less like a matron in training.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 23 Mar. 2021
  • So too is the suburban matron whose life centers on her bridge games and her martinis.
    — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Those words were fired off years ago like darts by a wise Greek matron who wanted to teach me and a friend a lesson about good intentions vs. outcomes.
    — Maria Panaritis, Philly.com, 2 May 2018
  • An innocent lands in a women’s prison with crude inmates and a big matron called Evelyn.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Our matron Barbara, who the girls whispered was a retired general, held court in pearls.
    — Jenny Hall, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2017
  • After shampooing a boy the matron would ease back his head, give him a slow and luxurious rinse.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • In line ahead of him was Juana Torres, a gregarious woman in her fifties and the matron at Ospina’s church.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 22 May 2021
  • In fact, the program started when one Montego Bay matron started to invite visitors to come to church and then return to her home for tea.
    — Eileen Ogintz, Fox News, 5 Feb. 2016
  • To my chagrin, another young matron, also with an overflowing cart and a toddler in tow, was bagging her items ahead of me and chimed in.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Rosengren was the last matron of Rosengren’s Books, the most storied bookseller in San Antonio.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2021

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