How to Use womanly in a Sentence

womanly

adjective

• She gave off a womanly radiance.
• The message: Be more womanly and put on a longer skirt.
  — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2018
• The best way to make such a point land, is, of course, to demonstrate womanly competence.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2022
• Eve in the Garden of Eden, the womanly form with all its curves and capabilities.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• So Nasta stayed at home to start learning her womanly duties.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• 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
• But Pankhurst had long since dispensed with a womanly need for approbation.
  — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2020
• Retro ’40s and ’50s styles are more flattering on womanly figures.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• What better and more womanly way to invite such conversation than with fashion that sends a message?!
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2019
• Ironic, because many of the artist’s celebrated features, such as her womanly figure and defining dark brown unibrow, were erased.
  — Kate Branch, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018
• Now acting as the mother to the collective unborn, other womanly duties followed.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2020
• The film, adapted from Judy Blume’s original 1970 book of the same title, highlights what most young girls wish for: to be adults with big girl responsibilities, womanly bodies, and the freedom to make their own decisions.
  — Olivia Bria, refinery29.com, 2 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In Burton’s exquisitely constructed ruffles and frills, Lykke and Teske projected womanly grace and sensuality—welcome traits on any runway.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2017
• Reddy sings of determination and steadfastness as womanly virtues, getting stronger as women overcome daily changes.
  — Elise Brisco, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2021
• 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
• Additionally, all three women have beautiful and powerful singing voices, which help portray their womanly strength.
  — Natalie Teuton, Orange County Register, 31 Mar. 2017
• 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
• 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
• Here too was that slightly exasperated pose of womanly maturity.
  — Kerry Howley, The New Republic, 17 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024