womanlike

Example Sentences

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“We wanted to make ourselves look pretty and attractive and womanlike, in spite of the uniform,” said Nina Shebalina, a mechanic in the 586th Regiment.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

He took it gingerlie in his faire, womanlike hands, and washed and wiped it before he put it on; which escaped not my step-mother's displeased notice.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

“Then,” she decreed with womanlike philosophy, “you had a right to say so—because I love you, and that is settled.”

From The Key to Yesterday by Buck, Charles Neville

And, womanlike, she wondered if this passion of the mind had drawn its strength and colour from the earlier wasted passion of his heart?

From The Builders by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Margaret, womanlike, loved the nicest of all feelings—"being wanted."

From There was a King in Egypt by Lorimer, Norma