female

Example Sentences

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Kalshi’s co-founder Luana Lopes Lara, for example, was named the youngest female self-made billionaire by Forbes last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Traci now employs all four of her daughters as her main team, aided by six part-time female staff.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

The former Paris Review editor discusses why being 40 in the 2020s feels more uncertain than ever and how her new novel explores the “infrastructure” of female friendship.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

"We have tentatively suggested that the long palps might allow the male to keep a safer distance during mating and help him avoid being attacked and devoured by the highly aggressive female."

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

From our much more broadminded twenty-first-century North American viewpoint, it’s important to remember that identifying yourself as male or female doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with your sexual orientation.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein