How to Use femme in a Sentence

femme

noun

• The look is mature, more assured, and the most femme in the series.
  — Taylore Glynn, Marie Claire, 28 Oct. 2020
• Think femme glam, men in short shorts and lots of water and glitter.
  — Micha Green, Baltimore Sun, 14 Sep. 2022
• To be in this fat, Black, femme body, is to always feel a bit exposed.
  — Faylita Hicks, Longreads, 2 Apr. 2020
• Then there’s the Portia spider that Cross calls the femme fatale.
  — National Geographic, 16 Feb. 2017
• These are no damsels in distress; these are femmes in control.
  — Jake Smith, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2023
• Elliott does nothing to tone down the butch-femme dichotomy in the work.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2018
• This is just a part of what women and femme people carry.
  — Valentina Valentini, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2021
• The event is dubbed frauen strike, grève des femmes, sciopero delle donne, depending on the country’s area.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 13 June 2019
• The faux femme will share stories about being quarantined with her kids, a few run-ins with the law and life on the road.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 29 Oct. 2020
• The females of one firefly species have earned the nickname femme fatales.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 29 June 2022
• It’s a fun, harmless movie — a campy, playful homage to femme fatales.
  — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2021
• By this measure, Camille Paglia is une femme sérieuse indeed.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2017
• Give this super femme dress a punch of punk rock with an edgy hairstyle packed with lots of statement clips.
  — Tiffany Reid, Seventeen, 20 June 2019
• Caldwell was lip-syncing to a TikTok meme trendy among egirls—femme gamers and otaku who live in thigh-highs and go rawr!.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 2 June 2021
• Only about a third of the species on the researchers’ list included femme fatales.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 20 July 2021
• What is the femme-wear equivalent for other people who work at these venues and events?
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• What does that mean for me as someone who doesn't identify as femme, but who is, 9 times out of 10, read as such?
  — Rachel Charlene Lewis, SELF, 31 Mar. 2018
• There's no singular way to be a woman (or a femme) and no one way to be a feminist.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Mar. 2022
• There are these murals across the city that are done by Black femme artists, and each of the murals has programming attached to them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2022
• On this list of 30 Muppets, only three of them are coded as femme/female.
  — Rebecca Caplan, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2021
• The tension of the novel is between the femme’s self-abasing love for the brilliant masculine creator and the artist in search of her own form.
  — Saidiya Hartman, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
• And be sure to follow the Girls on Film Twitter feed for additional femme-con.
  — Monika Bartyzel, The Week, 5 Oct. 2018
• It’s always a love letter to Black femme opulence and glamour, to the girl on the block, to folx with a subversive edge.
  — Essence, 10 Sep. 2022
• And because of that, the album was met with wide acclaim amongst the Black femme community.
  — Stephanie Long, refinery29.com, 15 June 2021
• Taylor Hill goes ultra-femme in hot pink, before donning a suit and tie.
  — Carine Roitfeld, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Apr. 2019
• Some, like using makeup and nail polish, are about presenting in the world as femme.
  — Amy Weiss-Meyer, The Atlantic, 16 May 2021
• Greta brings us high femme looks in warmer palettes, dresses that fit like a glove, knee length skirts, florals, and crop tops.
  — Samantha Mann, Vogue, 17 Nov. 2022
• There’s still so much femme-shaming in the gay community.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• Eilish isn’t the only one mixing loungewear with high-femme fashions.
  — Elizabeth Loga, Glamour, 13 July 2021
• And with Greta Gerwig’s Barbie premiering this week, more women, girls, and femmes are embracing Barbiecore.
  — Mollie Guerrero, refinery29.com, 19 July 2023

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024