How to Use manliness in a Sentence
manliness
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Being the naive newbie in Idaho does suit Cale, with his British lilt and fey enthusiasm for the manliness of the West.
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
6 Nov. 2025
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Studying Latin taught me that contemporary anxieties about manliness and cosmopolitanism date back thousands of years.
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Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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But just like the men who understood changing a diaper in the 1990s didn't take away their manliness, so can participating in their spouse's emotional needs.
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Laura Trujillo,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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The intoxicating pull of the manosphere – the hyper-online community led by men who tout misogynistic definitions of manliness – has given Glass a boisterous brigade of rivals.
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Rob Picheta,
CNN Money,
21 June 2026
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The fashion for bushy beards, and beards’ association with authentic manliness, has followed this same trajectory from irony to earnestness during its various resurgences since the early 19th century.
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Daniel Engber,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2026
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