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.
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There in the bushes, where the man had just been, was the body of a young woman.
— Natalie Morales, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023 -
Two and a half times as many women are on the list as men.
— Steven Stolman, Town & Country, 21 Mar. 2019 -
The force of the impact killed the man and a woman in the passenger seat.
— Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 25 June 2020 -
When deputies arrived, the woman was no longer in the area.
— Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2021 -
The day he was sentenced, Scott clung to the woman’s words.
— Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 12 June 2022 -
Roberts is the first Black woman to ever host the show.
— Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 19 July 2021 -
The show must go on – but not with the woman it’s named after.
— al, 13 Oct. 2021 -
The woman died at the scene while the driver fled, police said.
— Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2022 -
Police found the woman, who is in her mid 20s, near the back door.
— Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 8 May 2018 -
There was a trans woman killed here a few blocks [away].
— Jamie Ducharme, Time, 3 Feb. 2018 -
There was a young woman, barely alive, next to the boy.
— Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2024 -
The gender pay gap is alive and well in women’s sports.
— Condé Nast, SELF, 6 Nov. 2023 -
The officer talked to the woman, who was drunk and smelled like booze.
— John Benson, cleveland, 14 June 2022 -
Police have not said if the woman was the target of the shooting.
— Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2021 -
That’s the face and the charisma of a man who — other men want to be like that, women want to be with him.
— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023 -
Then, the man allegedly approached the woman and tried to push her out of the chair.
— Claire Law, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023 -
Police said the other man and woman were checked by medics at the scene.
— Jen Guadarrama, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Sep. 2022 -
One woman who heard the crash from her apartment said her house shook as the car passed by.
— Aicha El Hammar Castano, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2022 -
But how many of those could hold a woman and her five children?
— Alden Woods, azcentral, 2 July 2017 -
Could the woman he's been searching for all this time live right next door?
— Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 13 Oct. 2021 -
And some of the things are sort of obvious that have to do with being a woman.
— ABC News, 2 Mar. 2023 -
The husband and wife had gone out to check on their dogs when a polar bear lunged at the woman.
— Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 5 Dec. 2024 -
There was a woman who walks into one of our stores with her child.
— Nicole Norfleet, Star Tribune, 7 May 2021 -
That there can be the woman that can try to take over everything and will do it.
— Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2022 -
And her picture of being a woman in that world is drawn in fire.
— Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023 -
All of the women had been on the department for fewer than four years.
— kansascity, 26 Dec. 2017 -
The situation worsened when the woman discovered her husband had caught his mother doing the same thing the previous week but hadn't told her.
— Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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