womanly

Example Sentences

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It's first edition began with an explanation that its objective was to cover "the whole field of womanly action".

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025

This strict minister paterfamilias disapproved of his violist son, and in the wake of loss, Davis finds solace in music and womanly identity, slowly healing from estrangement.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2025

Sung with confident agility and womanly fullness rather than vulnerability, Sierra’s Lucia, though, spends much of the performance oddly unperturbed and sane, even happy.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2022

No longer holding herself responsible for what happened to her childish body, adolescent reputation and womanly psyche, Febos got free.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2021

After his displeasure had reached a certain point, the three of us rubbed our bruises and called ourselves to a womanly sort of meeting.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver