woman

Example Sentences

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As a woman tells Mew, “the planet teeters on the brink of an appalling and irreversible alteration.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

It was the first time a woman had won a Wimbledon final with a double bagel - the name given to a victory without dropping a game - since Dorothea Lambert Chambers in 1911.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

She served as a Democrat in the Assembly and state Senate, becoming the Senate’s first woman majority leader in 2005.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

It included the first Black man, Victor Glover, and the first woman, Christina Koch, to fly around the Moon.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

A woman lay on the single cot, three others on straw ticks on the floor.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom