unsex

Example Sentences

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Lady Macbeth has no such qualms when she’s summoning evil spirits to unsex her in “Macbeth.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

Going from unisex to unsex, The Lodge At Harvard Square, with 17 New England outlets, sells its women customers huge quantities of old-fashioned men's chino pants, whose seats rapidly become modishly baggy on distaff derri�res.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gentlemen, we ask nothing that would unsex ourselves.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Come, come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here; And fill me from the crown to the toe, top full Of direst cruelty!

From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by Joyce, John A.

Many Socialists, in giving to woman equality with man as a wage-earner and voter, wish to unsex her completely.

From British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by Barker, J. Ellis