How to Use prude in a Sentence

prude

noun

• Martha didn’t want to be a prude.
  — Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
• In fact, the prudes among us might need hand fans.
  — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
• Critics leapt at the chance to cast feminists as prudes and housewives as vixens.
  — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
• Tate Mcrae embraces the sheer trend The VMAs red carpet is no place for prudes.
  — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
• But that brief flash of cartoon baby nudity continues to bother prudes, decades after the book’s first run.
  — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
• What the spot tries to do, convince folks in this left-leaning redoubt to be venturesome and vote for Hilton, is not the least offensive, though your friendly political columnist, hardly a prude, found the execution a bit, well, icky.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026