How to Use woman in a Sentence

woman

noun
  • The store sells shoes for both men and women.
  • She is a grown woman.
  • She grew up to become a confident and beautiful woman.
  • There’s women that gotta go to work.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Her clothes are worn by women around the world.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The right of women and girls to live free from abuse?
    — Jodi Bondi Norgaard, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Wouldn’t a con woman rear a child to be a con artist?
    — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Kristal was the great love of his life (and a darn good con woman).
    — Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
  • And so the woman took a picture with me.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 16 June 2026
  • Gray said the two women did not know each other.
    — CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • There was a woman sleeping in my bed.
    — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • One agent asked if the woman had been shooting at him.
    — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
  • A lot of women don’t want to reclaim that word.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The woman noticed a man on the ground.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 12 May 2026
  • Give that woman a raise and promote her!
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026
  • The woman was pronounced dead on the scene.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
    — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • But how many of those could hold a woman and her five children?
    — Alden Woods, azcentral, 2 July 2017
  • Today is about the women's lives who were stolen.
    — April 8, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Shot this woman, this young lady, in the face.
    — Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 June 2026
  • All four women have been replaced by men.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 26 May 2026
  • The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
  • There was a woman who walks into one of our stores with her child.
    — Nicole Norfleet, Star Tribune, 7 May 2021
  • Police found two boys, a man and a woman who had all been shot.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The show must go on – but not with the woman it’s named after.
    — al, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The two younger women stayed for a year or two and became close friends.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 16 May 2025
  • Paramedics pronounced the woman dead at the scene.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
  • One woman, who was not wearing a seat belt, died at the scene.
    — Fox19 Staff, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Could the woman he's been searching for all this time live right next door?
    — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Many on the men’s and women’s teams have known each other for a long time.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 25 Feb. 2026

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