How to Use androgyny in a Sentence

androgyny

noun
  • There’s some androgyny to the way my voice sounds when paired with the music.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Besides, her height and androgyny meant that some of the heterosexual coupling that her friends fell into was not quite available to her.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
  • And from the excerpts, the reader learns that Hermia, too, is preoccupied with androgyny.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Wearing a little top that errs on lingerie makes this outfit strike the perfect balance of androgyny and femininity.
    — Jennifer Hussein, InStyle, 20 June 2026
  • Betty was remembered for his androgyny.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The artist increasingly flirted with androgyny throughout his career.
    — Alex Heigl, PEOPLE, 10 Jan. 2026
  • From his earliest days working in Italy, the designer excelled in both menswear and women’s clothing—an unusual feat—and androgyny was a hallmark of his work.
    — Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The show was a collection of contrasts — couture against everyday ease, femininity with androgyny, covered versus sheer.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The show was a collection of contrasts — couture against everyday ease, femininity with androgyny, covered versus sheer.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Classics Get New Energy Among the sequins, rock glamour, and hints of androgyny on the runway, the elements of classic menswear – and the men who still inspire designers today – took center stage for some designers.
    — Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • After all, Boy George is the performer who arrived in the early '80s in a swirl of makeup, ribbons and gender-blurring style that a lot of the culture found genuinely alarming when visible, joyful androgyny read as provocation to the status quo.
    — Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • On the genderqueer flag, which was created in 2011 by Marilyn Roxie, lavender represents androgyny—a combination of characteristics considered masculine or feminine.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 2 June 2026

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