How to Use womanhood in a Sentence

womanhood

noun
  • What is your view of womanhood?
  • The book is a celebration of womanhood.
  • As if womanhood can be boiled down to a lab result.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • This just breaks down the fabric of womanhood.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Black womanhood is not a monolith.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
  • For me, my courage, bravery, and strength help define my womanhood.
    — Sara Altschule, SELF, 3 Dec. 2018
  • My first three films all felt tied together by these themes of girlhood and womanhood.
    — Keaton Bell, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Slowly pieces of my womanhood are taken away.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Meghan also spoke about having a daughter changed her point of view on womanhood.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Hair and nail treatments are rites of passage into black womanhood.
    — Natalie Meade, The New Yorker, 17 June 2020
  • Not the power of a woman to do what a man does, but the power of womanhood, itself.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
  • These are renderings of her childhood and young womanhood as seen through the patina of old age.
    — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • There was a chasm of difference between the way Black and white womanhood was viewed.
    — Allure, 13 May 2022
  • There was so much context in there of how that shaped my relationships, my view of the world, my young womanhood.
    — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 25 June 2025
  • That was a style that was specific and iconic for her at that period of her womanhood.
    — Diana Tsui, TIME, 23 Sep. 2024
  • We are taught to be smart, strong, excellent, and perfect images of black womanhood.
    — Clarissa Brooks, Teen Vogue, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The goal is to bridge the gap for girls transitioning into womanhood.
    — La'tasha Givens, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Isn't that what dolls so often do, after all; give us a trial space to play at the messy and constant work of womanhood?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 July 2023
  • The millennium turned—and with it, the rhythm of Black womanhood evolved.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
  • In the process, my identity, foreignness and womanhood were weaponized against me.
    — Ana Diamond, CNN, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The idea of reimagining the lives of the Bronte sisters on the cusp of womanhood was just too good to resist.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022
  • And that cusp-of-womanhood frustration will keep simmering and make for juicy conflict to come.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Often, Lee’s idea of progressive womanhood is any gal who’s as openly horny as a dude.
    — Noel Murray, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2018
  • Her questions—on the past, on the present, on purpose and motherhood and womanhood—are eternal.
    — Ashley Leath, Country Living, 1 July 2020
  • But girlfriend, don’t let a few extra pounds of womanhood stop you from catching some sun and looking great while basking in it.
    — Micolette Davis, Chron, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Point of view rotates among a cluster of girls on the verge of womanhood as the fierce, red-haired Janey enlists a crew of rebels.
    — Ellen Emry Heltzel, The Seattle Times, 24 July 2017
  • The selection process for the shorts has a 360 focus on womanhood.
    — Nina-Sophia Miralles, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Their womanhood was questioned.
    — Sophia A. Nelson, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Ardies plays Hulda, a guileless girl, full of excitement at the prospect of womanhood.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 6 Dec. 2025
  • This is to finish the fasting and to celebrate the transition from a girl to womanhood.
    — Meghan Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2021

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