How to Use gendered in a Sentence

gendered

adjective
  • Why is scale so loaded with gendered ideas, that men make big works and women make small ones?
    — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Launched in 2019, the dolls have short hair and non-gendered bodies.
    — Jennifer G. Sullivan, Allure, 31 Dec. 2021
  • The gendered terms in this article are the same terms used in the reference source.
    — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Without sounding too gendered here, was there any advantage to co-writing the book with a man?
    — Amy Verner, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Using a big piece of paper, Brown and their daughter wrote down gendered and neutral words.
    — Amber Leventry, Parents, 2 Jan. 2024
  • On the runways and the street, old constraints of gendered dressing have all but disappeared.
    — Max Siedentopf, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Two weeks to map out the next 10 years of the fight against gendered violence in Australia.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Not that gendered ageism is exclusive to my professional worlds, of course.
    — Kirbie Johnson, Allure, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Crenshaw aims to get people thinking equally about all who’ve lost their lives in this way, rather than just a gendered subset of them.
    — Rita Omokha, ELLE, 18 July 2023
  • So how did masks become a symbol in a gendered culture war in the United States?
    — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
  • As such, the intersex flag makes a statement with two non-gendered colors—yellow and purple.
    — Nicole Harris, Parents, 2 June 2026
  • Given the choice between gendered categories, both elected to compete in the male acting races.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 12 June 2023
  • Then there’s the needless gendered rules on how boys should dress, groom themselves, speak to girls, treat other boys and even function as part of a family.
    — Tayo Bero, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Two singers, one male and one female, play the different gendered aspects of Hannah’s psyche.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 22 May 2021
  • That was the core of the struggles, especially around gendered and racialized violence.
    — Malaika Jabali, Essence, 1 Sep. 2022
  • For Calamia, races had always been stressful, from the registration process to the gendered language used throughout the event.
    — Maddie Ellis, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2022
  • And despite the gendered ticketing system, students are not confined to the clothing categories of boys and girls.
    — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The erasure of a woman’s own experience is part of the enduring abuse of gendered violence.
    — Sarah Wang, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 June 2021
  • But there’s no denying that these pictures also express a delight in the male gaze — as well as the female gaze, the non-gendered gaze and the gaze of anyone who’d like to look.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
  • Often, this adoration is framed in gendered terms, a discourse that reached its apex with a thread that went viral on Twitter earlier this week.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Through Marie, Groff explores how a society’s religious and gendered constraints can be turned on their head to create a utopia.
    — The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • With this winning moment, a woman has now won in every single non-gendered Oscar category.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Refusing denialism, practicing care Buckman has long made work about gendered violence.
    — Olga Garcia-Mayoral, Miami Herald, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Both actors view the nominations Tuesday as a sign of progress in the industry, even as there is still a ways to go, as the Tony Awards categories remain gendered.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 May 2023
  • But in most cases, especially from the late 80s well into the 00s, TV movies about women dealing with gendered issues were in high demand.
    — Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Introduced at the very first Oscars ceremony in 1929, Best Cinematography is the last long-running non-gendered category to award a woman.
    — Joyce Eng, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Rose Byrne, Joel Edgerton, Tessa Thompson, Keke Palmer, and Kirsten Dunst are all nominated in the non-gendered acting categories.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
  • While the previous cast members are now shipped off to The Valley, hosting Love Island, or starring on Vanderpump Villa, audiences tuning into the flagship Housewives spinoff will get a new cast of drama queens (non-gendered) for season 12.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Before the Harlem Renaissance had a name, Jessie Redmon Fauset was already drafting its blueprint—curating its voices, refining its vision, and authoring novels that quietly destabilized the racial and gendered hierarchies of American letters.
    — Glory Edim august 27, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025

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