Example Sentences

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The women, Cindy found, “traversed the terrains of motherhood, daughterhood and scholarhood” by being sure to care for themselves and one another.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2022

A book about creativity, daughterhood and how to uncouple the two.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2017

In your late 40s, early 50s, all the baggage of daughterhood and sisterhood just falls away.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2017

It involves cultivating a sense of self that is has little to do with the motherhood, daughterhood, wifehood or friendship that society calls “womanhood.”

From Time • Dec. 8, 2014

I had loved her dear mother before her, and the beautiful daughterhood of this girl had always touched me as the highest and sweetest type I ever had known.

From The Love Affairs of an Old Maid by Bell, Lilian