womenfolk

Example Sentences

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But the womenfolk in town were way ahead of them.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024

I’m fairly certain womenfolk everywhere saw themselves in that statement and felt something deep inside their souls.

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2022

There is something of the medieval battle convention to this; when a knight is vanquished, all his womenfolk just have to spontaneously join a nunnery, or become vowesses.

From The Guardian • Nov. 27, 2017

"We had grown up having buffaloes in our cattle pen and had watched the womenfolk condense leftover milk over a low flame. What he didn't know was the exact recipe, the spices."

From BBC • Aug. 11, 2017

On the threshold stood Matthew Wood, staring from his awful height at the littered room, the gowns tumbled over chairs and benches, and the guilty faces of his womenfolk.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare