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
  • 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
  • In that same pantheon of strong Black femme leads in Louboutins and power suits, there’s been a new main character to add; Jax Stewart.
    Essence, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Her music and mystique as a buttery-smooth femme seductress left more than a few fellas shook in the crowd.
    Vulture, 12 Apr. 2022

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