How to Use everywoman in a Sentence

everywoman

noun
  • There are those who want to lift her up as an everywoman who blazes the trail for the rest of us.
    — Caroline Siegrist, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Amy’s lament is that of an everywoman, but her actions are those of a psychopath.
    — Nora Caplan-Bricker, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2019
  • But unlike the everywomen in our lives, most of what is known of Markle comes to us through the lens of media.
    — Samantha Willis, Glamour, 18 May 2018
  • Jackie is more than an everywoman — there’s no one like Pam Grier.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Amid the glut of uber-fancy restaurants, what are the standouts and what about the everyman and everywoman?
    — Amanda Faison, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Not Bridget Jones, freed from being an everywoman at last, and able to love herself.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Song’s script clearly wants to frame Lucy as a scrappy everywoman, the kind of dame who is pragmatic in all areas of her life.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 25 June 2025
  • The modernist visage embraces the everywoman who just wants to get into bed and nap—talk about art imitating life.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 15 May 2025
  • Sure, modern-day everywoman Blac Chyna has had a few headaches recently.
    — Katie Van Syckle, The Cut, 23 July 2017
  • Despite her years of acclaim and success, Kidman still feels like an everywoman, despite being anything but.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Bobbie adjusts to her new life as McEntire wields her grumbling everywoman sitcom humor once again.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The everywoman jumper shows a softer, more approachable side to a public figurehead who is putting down her armour to tell her side of a tale that has been rehashed countless times.
    — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2022
  • There is an accessibility, an everywoman-ness to her that is incredibly valuable for the part.
    — Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
  • With Labor Day in the rearview and an ever so slight chill in the air, the actor put her everywoman, boho-esque spin on a preppy outfit.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
  • But despite her chicer moments, Miranda’s wardrobe was designed to position her as the show’s everywoman, not the ingenue.
    — Glamour, 15 Oct. 2019
  • The sweet, plucky matriarch and one-woman support squad appeals greatly to female viewers as the ultimate everywoman.
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 14 July 2021
  • This is the magic of Oh’s performance — to portray an ivory tower English professor as an everywoman.
    — Nancy Wang Yuen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2021
  • But Porter’s superpower is her credential as a populist everywoman.
    — Kathy Kiely, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Britt, 42, spoke from an oddly Spartan kitchen, a backdrop that was intended to convey her everywoman credentials.
    — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Mary was a vacuum—conceived as little more than an American everywoman—and Lasser rushed to fill that void with her own experience.
    — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • Such characters couldn’t be everyman or everywoman, but only a very specific kind of man or woman who stood in for a very particular and marginalized community.
    — John L. Jackson Jr. Los Angeles Times (tns), Star Tribune, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Still, the camera adors Jolie, who hits deep notes as her everywoman crusader survives unbearable cruelty, civic corruption and nightmarish stints in a psych ward.
    — Hugh Hart, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2008
  • Instead, von Horn, whose last film Sweat also focused on a young woman coming apart at the seams, selects a troubled yet sympathetic everywoman as his point of entry.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
  • To her, Mary was a vacuum—conceived as little more than an American everywoman—and Lasser rushed to fill that void with her own experience.
    — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • What is also deeply compelling is her ability to capture the feeling of the everywoman in a myriad of projects not limited to Eve’s Bayou, which some feel was her breakout role.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 8 Aug. 2024
  • As a result, viewers get the larger-than-life detective who is smarter than everyone else in the room, while the main protagonist serves as the gin-guzzling everywoman just trying to figure out what the hell is going on.
    — Amber Dowling, Variety, 14 Oct. 2022
  • But so would Andy Sachs — a character who, in the first movie, was an everywoman both awed by wealth and put off by it, an outsider who briefly immerses herself in another world and then chooses to return to her own.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Director Jacob Harvey's show takes a deep dive into the psyche of the Young Woman — and forges a palpable everywoman from her misery.
    — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Sturgeon’s political identity is as a plain-speaking, supremely competent everywoman.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Spielberg introduced a behind-the-scenes clip that didn’t quite confirm an alien theme, though plenty of menacing figures in unmarked black cars were seen chasing Blunt (who appeared in several scenes as an everywoman in a rural area).
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 27 June 2025

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