How to Use stuntwoman in a Sentence

stuntwoman

noun
  • Part of that is thanks to Kern, who is a stuntwoman on the field and adventurer off it.
    Tyler Tachman, The Indianapolis Star, 10 May 2023
  • His mother was a stuntwoman in westerns and had been the movie double for the silent screen star Clara Bow.
    New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • If Lena can’t make it as a painter, what hope is there for Ria, who dreams of becoming a stuntwoman?
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Where did your desire to become a stuntwoman come from?
    NBC News, 16 Feb. 2018
  • The stuntwoman was one of at least six people injured just after 1 a.m.
    Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2024
  • He was told the video was meant for a person named Sandu who was becoming a stuntwoman.
    Shannon Bond, NPR, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Meet Tamiko Brownlee, the toughest stuntwoman and martial artist to ever grow up on the North Central side.
    René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2023
  • His mother, Muriel Montrose, was a stuntwoman and double for the actor Clara Bow.
    Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 27 July 2022
  • The show revolves around Anna, a 30 year-old stuntwoman who falls in love with a famous actress during a film shoot.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Then, whatever the actor can't do or doesn't feel comfortable with, that's when the stuntwoman will take over.
    Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 13 Sep. 2020
  • The young Estelle, training to become a stuntwoman, still doesn’t have the answer and dreams of powerful women’s roles.
    Trinidad Barleycorn, Variety, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Local media reported that the stuntwoman appeared to lose control of the vehicle, which drove off the set and through the window of a building across the street.
    Reuters, Time, 14 Aug. 2017
  • Priya Kansara leads as Ria, a daydreamer and keen martial artist who aspires to become a stuntwoman.
    Thomas Page, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
  • After Holmes and her husband left the series to form their own production company in 1915, her stuntwoman became the star of the show.
    Elizabeth Weitzman, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023
  • In the film, Ria, the youngest in a British Pakistani family, attends high school while training hard to fulfill her dream of becoming a stuntwoman.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • And the stuntwoman, Kelsey Andrews, who played the Clicker was terrifying.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2023
  • This also allowed Ridloff to flaunt her running prowess on-screen instead of using a stuntwoman or stand-in.
    Rivea Ruff, Essence, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Last summer, a stuntwoman died during production, and in April one of its cast members, T.J. Miller, was charged with falsely calling in a bomb threat.
    New York Times, 2 May 2018
  • On top of her job as a stuntwoman, Graff still competes on American Ninja Warrior.
    Amy Schlinger, SELF, 13 June 2018
  • Even her longtime stuntwomen are acknowledging some aches and pains.
    Scott Huver, CNN, 21 July 2019
  • This commitment to verisimilitude led to some darkly humorous moments on set, as when a stuntwoman who had been lying on the floor all day stood up and the blood from her pregnancy belly poured out on the floor.
    Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2022
  • True, watching Kacy Catanzaro be the first woman to complete a qualifying course and stuntwoman Jessie Graff the first to advance to city finals was glorious.
    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2020
  • Another audacious stunt by Emirates, which for the second time has sent a stuntwoman in full flight attendant uniform to a tiny perch some 830 meters up the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 22 Jan. 2022
  • In addition to her acting roles, Inosanto is also a stuntwoman, a martial artist, and a director.
    Danny Horn, EW.com, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The show, which Cinétévé is producing with Canal Plus, revolves around Anna, a 30 year-old stuntwoman who’s expecting her first child with her boyfriend before falling in love with a famous actress during a film shoot.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The sole person who took a different take on the feminist designation was Canadian martial artist and stuntwoman Samantha Jo, who plays Euboea in the film.
    Sonaiya Kelley, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
  • There were carnival rides and stuntwomen zipping along wires, all part of a festival that is also evincing some complexities.
    Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Phythian, who became a successful martial artist, stuntwoman and actor, married Marke in 2015.
    al, 11 May 2022
  • The stuntwoman, actor, and filmmaker started learning martial arts at age 2 and would often join the predominantly male classes taught by her father.
    NBC News, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The stuntwoman hasn’t made a film since the accident and is collaborating with a writer on her biography and working on a documentary about her recovery.
    Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2020

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