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

How tall and womanlike they looked in their dark serge dresses!

From Sisters Three by Lloyd, Stanley

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

“But she said something, my lady,” cried Jane, womanlike, grasping her mistress’s feelings and eager to put matters right.

From Sir Hilton's Sin by Fenn, George Manville

“There is no real reason why you should not make an Empress, dearest,” said her mother, in pride of the girl’s beauty, and desiring, womanlike, to promote her child’s happiness.

From The Princess Virginia by Guipon, Leon