masculine

Example Sentences

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The new rules of masculine engagement seem to drive these television men crazy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

"He kind of just fit a masculine action-star stereotype... I'm pretty much positive none of us could name a movie he'd been in."

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

It’s not dense, it doesn’t blabber on and it certainly doesn’t reek of masculine self-obsession.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

And that took letting go of whatever this masculine image was that was blocking me.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Some of the younger fishermen, those who used buoys as floats for their lines and had motorboats, bought when the shark livers had brought much money, spoke of her as el mar which is masculine.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway