womanhood

Example Sentences

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The conversation shifts into a broader reflection on womanhood.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

Her unsteady ascent toward womanhood coincides, hysterically, with the theater company’s descent into chaos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

"Your wild imagination, your brave untethered womanhood, your ferocious gentleness is a guiding light to me."

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

Her breezy, layered menswear in that film became a cultural touchstone, symbolizing a new kind of womanhood — intellectual, self-assured and a little eccentric.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2025

They reach womanhood when they turn thirteen, just like boys reach manhood, and then they’re women and they become wives.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness