How to Use womanly in a Sentence

womanly

adjective
  • She gave off a womanly radiance.
  • The best way to make such a point land, is, of course, to demonstrate womanly competence.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2022
  • So Nasta stayed at home to start learning her womanly duties.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The goal was to be able to wear backless dresses or go out and not have to feel self-conscious about my boobs and my cleavage but still look womanly.
    — Lawrence Yee, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
  • But Pankhurst had long since dispensed with a womanly need for approbation.
    — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2020
  • The book captures in clear prose both small details such as the delicious contents of a full lunch box and mighty moments of womanly fury.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Eve in the Garden of Eden, the womanly form with all its curves and capabilities.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022
  • Tarun would tease her, and my mother would look sorrowfully toward Kavitha, as if the two of them now shared some womanly burden.
    — Madhuri Vijay, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Over the course of the film, Alice argues with a series of men who dismiss her concerns as fits of womanly hysteria.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Retro ’40s and ’50s styles are more flattering on womanly figures.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2018
  • The paradox of Aretha’s womanly songs and her patriarchal upbringing is too complex for a movie this shallow.
    — Armond White, National Review, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Marant launched her label and had her first show in 1994, quickly becoming a byword for a hip, womanly brand of boho chic.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
  • Now acting as the mother to the collective unborn, other womanly duties followed.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2020
  • Whewell praised Somerville for applying her womanly art to the project of unifying the rapidly fragmenting sciences.
    — Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2020
  • Zelda invited the hedge witches to join her new coven which prays to the female goddess Hecate, who possesses all womanly power.
    — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Before their daughters grow up and leave home, mothers may impart some lessons in the womanly arts—for example, the proper way to whoop and hoot with your mate while sitting in a tree branch.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 14 Aug. 2013
  • That ancient rite of womanly passage has been degraded into faux horror tales by fashion magazines that fetishize prepubescent bodies for profit.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Jean Jinho Kim distills womanly form to pairs of boots stylized from metal pipes, powder-coated for an industrial sheen.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
  • Fellow Ukrainians, male and female, regularly accuse them of being women or womanly in social media posts and to their faces.
    — Olga Oliker, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Because estrogen plays a crucial role in girls developing their womanly figures, this may suggest that breasts are just a side effect of gaining healthy voluptuous fat overall.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2019
  • Reddy sings of determination and steadfastness as womanly virtues, getting stronger as women overcome daily changes.
    — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Additionally, all three women have beautiful and powerful singing voices, which help portray their womanly strength.
    — Natalie Teuton, Orange County Register, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Rachel Feinstein in a beaded L'Wren Scott cocktail dress that held everything on her womanly curves right where it was supposed to be?
    — Derek Blasberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Oct. 2011
  • Vice President Harris is depicted as Jezebel, the epitome of womanly wickedness who meets a grisly end.
    — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
  • With its elegant, womanly heel curving into a narrow point and its sensible perforated top designed to resemble a man's oxford dress shoe, the oxford pump is the shoe of a woman who stands between two worlds.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • Shallow white lines branched out like riverways from my sternum along the inside of my cleavage — skin desperately trying to keep up with my new womanly figure, which would eventually stretch to reveal curvy hips and D cups.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Seemingly mesmerized by her own image, she is captured at the innocent early stages of preoccupation with womanly self-presentation and self-making.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Many of the newest iterations are seamed to accentuate the body, providing a womanly shapeliness in place of utilitarian boxiness.
    — Alev Aktar, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Those pirates thrived under the protection of the island’s capricious sultana, cruel in her poverty, weakness, fearful isolation, and unnatural state of unmarried womanly rule.
    — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Famous as a prison reformer and Quaker at the turn of the 19th century, Fry is another who, like Nightingale, has been presented as the epitome of womanly virtues.
    — Sarah Gristwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024

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