How to Use femme fatale in a Sentence

femme fatale

noun

• The femme fatale digs a hole on the beach and waits inside it for the high tide to drown her.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• Pair yours with tights and a short trench for a femme fatale vibe.
  — Erin Parker, Glamour, 12 Nov. 2019
• The femme fatale vibe doesn't stop with her hair, either.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 25 Mar. 2024
• Then there’s the Portia spider that Cross calls the femme fatale.
  — National Geographic, 16 Feb. 2017
• Proof that there's no time like the second trimester for a diehard femme fatale to show off what she's got.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2018
• The plot was thwarted by Batman, but the femme fatale may have stolen his heart.
  — George Gene Gustines, New York Times, 1 July 2018
• Watch also as Gaetz tries to avoid the temptations of the evil femme fatale, A.O.C.
  — Patrick Crooks, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2020
• One was the leader, one was the femme fatale/comic relief, and one was the muscle.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2021
• For instance, women in film noir: The femme fatale has all of this power.
  — Shaad D'souza, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
• Have you ever been lured in by a femme fatale and taken on a wild journey?
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2023
• Your character is a walking spoiler, but was the chance to play in the femme fatale realm part of the appeal?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
• Is the femme fatale to blame for the murder, or is she just another victim?
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 11 July 2019
• Maluma's bad-boy charm meets J.Lo's femme fatale is bound to make for something special.
  — Marjua Estevez, Billboard, 3 Jan. 2018
• She’s a happy-go-lucky femme fatale of the Instagram era.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2021
• Abigail Spencer’s take on the typical femme fatale is here to shake things up.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• But a deep, plunging side part has always had a little femme fatale bite to it.
  — Loren Savini, Allure, 30 Dec. 2022
• Maybe that’s why, in 2023, the most effective femme fatale is one who can fool the audience.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
• What is, after all, the cultural longevity of the bombshell, the femme fatale?
  — Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Turns out a femme fatale has been poisoning and plotting for their end all along.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
• What if Georgie’s not really in love with Alex, but just using him all along, a la a femme fatale?
  — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
• Is the woman who walks into his office a femme fatale or a damsel in distress?
  — Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 20 Aug. 2021
• Like the femme fatale portrayed in that song, or indeed, in many noir films, the Monica in this film aims to be a survivor.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
• Rebecca Ferguson is Mae, the femme fatale of the piece.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2021
• The single is bass-heavy but sultry, the sonic equivalent of a femme fatale.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2019
• Then, like a noir femme fatale, into his auto shop walked Cari, needing some help with her car.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
• The search is on for a pair of femme fatales who drugged and then robbed a poker-playing tourist in Hollywood, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.
  — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• M3gan may not dream of electric sheep, but she’s got some killer dance moves and a CPU as delightfully wicked as any femme fatale.
  — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 4 Jan. 2023
• The looks were styled with tight twin braids and dark lipstick — contrasting innocence with a femme fatale touch.
  — Colleen Barry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
• Sleeping Dogs plays with the tropes of the femme fatale through Baines, although Gillan hesitates to use that description for her.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
• To make matters stranger, Bill keeps envisioning his lover as a femme fatale with fins.
  — Alexandra Brady, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024