How to Use femme fatale in a Sentence

femme fatale

noun
  • Pair yours with tights and a short trench for a femme fatale vibe.
    — Erin Parker, Glamour, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Even at 19, she was seen as a femme fatale.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The femme fatale digs a hole on the beach and waits inside it for the high tide to drown her.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • There is a femme fatale feel with lingerie details.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Proof that there's no time like the second trimester for a diehard femme fatale to show off what she's got.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Sometimes, femme fatales will even take to the skies and hunt blinking males on-the-wing.
    — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 3 July 2017
  • Have you ever been lured in by a femme fatale and taken on a wild journey?
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2023
  • But a deep, plunging side part has always had a little femme fatale bite to it.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Turns out a femme fatale has been poisoning and plotting for their end all along.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The plot was thwarted by Batman, but the femme fatale may have stolen his heart.
    — George Gene Gustines, New York Times, 1 July 2018
  • Is the woman who walks into his office a femme fatale or a damsel in distress?
    — Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Abigail Spencer’s take on the typical femme fatale is here to shake things up.
    — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Then there’s the Portia spider that Cross calls the femme fatale.
    — National Geographic, 16 Feb. 2017
  • Catherine is a femme fatale, and Jonathan is her unwitting prey.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Then, like a noir femme fatale, into his auto shop walked Cari, needing some help with her car.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
  • And like any good femme fatale, Maddy is given savvy at the expense of moral scruple.
    — The Editors, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Your character is a walking spoiler, but was the chance to play in the femme fatale realm part of the appeal?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
  • And like any good femme fatale, Maddy is given savvy at the expense of moral scruples.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The single is bass-heavy but sultry, the sonic equivalent of a femme fatale.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Those clawlike acrylics of last season gave way to an entire vampy, gothy, witchy, femme fatale through-line on the runways.
    — Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026
  • To make matters stranger, Bill keeps envisioning his lover as a femme fatale with fins.
    — Alexandra Brady, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The looks were styled with tight twin braids and dark lipstick — contrasting innocence with a femme fatale touch.
    — Colleen Barry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The actress’ attire, slinky and skin-forward, harkens back to the sensual stylings of the femme fatale.
    — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2025
  • What is, after all, the cultural longevity of the bombshell, the femme fatale?
    — Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Had the outfit been worn by a movie villain, it would instantly be entered into the femme fatale canon.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2023
  • What if Georgie’s not really in love with Alex, but just using him all along, a la a femme fatale?
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
  • All as much fans of soft-core nineties femme fatale films as experimental cinema.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • Because when a French bombshell does femme fatale beauty with a twist, the results are sheer magic.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The first winner was Grace Ling, whose looks were inspired by a femme fatale character.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 8 July 2025
  • Like the femme fatale portrayed in that song, or indeed, in many noir films, the Monica in this film aims to be a survivor.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022

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