| I was beginning to feel rather matronly, and now I'm back to the weight I've always been. |
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| When I was a kid, there were two matronly old women who lived down our otherwise quiet cul-de-sac. |
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| The older nurse clucked in a matronly manner and the two nurses, together, hurried the girl into the back room to find a doctor. |
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| More matronly sorts opt instead for ye olde-style tea shoppes and here you can eavesdrop over a discreet pot of Darjeeling. |
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| The by-now matronly personnel manager and a flock of remarkable young employees stand around offering toasts on the happy occasion. |
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| Judging from the reaction of the Empress, our next-door neighbor, she also did a fair number on the matronly blue-haired crowd as well. |
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| I thought of them, cool and rich from many punnets picked and rated highly by the matronly overseer, laughing and drinking in some city bar. |
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| And get it tailored next time so it actually sort of fits and doesn't make you look matronly. |
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| Gone are the previous car's somewhat matronly curves and cute pop-eyed face, blandly attired. |
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| She may be a loving wife and mother but her matronly style of floral shirts and mom jeans is embarrassing her family. |
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| I had barely started when the two matronly American ladies we'd seen in the tea shop, still in their kagouls, walked past me. |
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| Nevertheless, her plain delivery stripped of vocal runs, trills and decorations can make her long baroque arias sound staid and matronly. |
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| The music starts, and six identical doors swing open on the set to reveal six matronly dancers in zebra-print gowns and big hair. |
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| Those with sleeves that stop just short of the elbow can make a classier alternative to sleeveless or short-sleeved ones, both of which risk looking matronly on older women. |
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| Putting on my most matronly look, I refuse this unappetising offer. |
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| The 'Mother of Parliaments' may have a somewhat staid, matronly reputation abroad, but actually she is constantly updating her wardrobe. |
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| This was a matronly prison guard reading messages from the artist. |
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| Gone is her matronly gray frizzy hair and those bushy brows, frumpy frock and old lady pearls. |
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| She was the same height and weight as Mother and had the same hairdo and dressed matronly like her. It was scary. She looked so much like Mother. |
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| The mother dressed matronly, in a bonnet and in black, always sat between her two big daughters, firm, directing, and repressed. |
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| Prunty, who is a reflective, matronly woman of thirty-eight with bright-blue eyes, said that she and her husband began to read early teachings of the Church that linked godhood to plural marriage. |
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| The Brotherhood's mentor, Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, is said to enjoy listening to recordings of Egypt's matronly diva, Um Kalthoum, which send Salafists into paroxysms of puritanical anger. |
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| But now that the Federal Republic is a matronly 60 and unification is approaching a post-adolescent 20, the likely shape of normality is becoming clearer. Germany has become more at ease with itself. |
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| She is very curious to see what Maureen, the receptionist, looks like when abstracted from that stern matronly gaze etched irremovably into her stony forbidding features. |
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