How to Use manhood in a Sentence

manhood

noun

• He took the comment as a challenge to his manhood.
• He grew from boyhood to manhood in a small southern town.
• For some sound junkies, the size of the stereo and the girth of the speakers are the measures of manhood.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1997
• On the cusp of manhood, with all the innocence of a child and the body hair of an adult.
  — Dahlia Gallin Ramirez, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2021
• The goal of the wrestling work, said the artist, was to loosen definitions of manhood.
  — Meredith Mendelsohn, New York Times, 22 June 2018
• My pre-teen self just shuddered at the thought of JT’s manhood.
  — refinery29.com, 30 June 2018
• The Fab Five used their skills to direct the boys toward manhood.
  — Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• And Trump started the rally by talking about the size of Palmer's manhood.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
• There are 165 days until the election, and the Democrats have a manhood problem — one a pill won’t fix.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
• In his place was a vision of American manhood that would have been at home in the 1950s.
  — Vulture, 3 Aug. 2022
• It’s the tenuity of manhood that drives men to seek ways to prove their masculine bona fides.
  — Parker Molloy, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2022
• Trump as having a micro penis, as if that were the true test of manhood.
  — Siobhan McGuirk, Teen Vogue, 18 Aug. 2017
• These men, between ages 18 and 65, have been yoked to the stereotypes of manhood: tough, stoic, brutish.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2022
• Given a choice between a mask and a cup, a catcher would say a prayer for his manhood and pull the mask over his head.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 1 July 2020
• About midway through the Vine, Louis seems to notice his untamed manhood and ... jumps up and down even more!
  — Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 22 Apr. 2015
• Then came the 6:25 mark of the fourth quarter against the Pistons, the game very much in doubt, and Wiseman’s biggest-yet step into manhood.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 29 Dec. 2020
• Holland’s Todd Hewitt, orphaned as a baby and on the cusp of manhood, is the youngest male in the town and bears both the hope and burden that comes with that.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 5 Mar. 2021
• Much of the film’s comedy hinges on the trio trying to keep their manhood (and manliness) in check.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 4 May 2023
• The icy dip was a brazen display of manhood and an Orthodox Christian ritual to mark the Feast of the Epiphany.
  — Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
• Pit bulls are supposed to be some kind of expression of the owner's manhood.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2020
• The years during which Albinati comes of age are years of epochal change for Italy, for Catholicism, for ideals of manhood.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• Eric sees Claire, in a weird way, as his ticket to adulthood and real love and manhood.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2020
• The Old School notions of manhood, respect etc don’t work anymore.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 31 July 2019
• For the Maasai tribe in Kenya, killing a lion with a spear was a rite of passage into manhood until the past decade or so.
  — Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2023
• The point is that ideals of manhood can be—and are—wielded by men in power to the majority of men’s detriment.
  — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Aug. 2019
• Sumney goes high and low in search of a different version of manhood.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2020
• The statue’s manhood can only be seen by standing close to the glass on the lower floor and peering upwards.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• Because meat is linked to manhood, carnivory promises a way to pump up a shrivelled birthright.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• In South Korea, mocking a man’s manhood spurs a reverse #MeToo.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2021
• Ah yes, corn, hunting, leather, ruins, skyscrapers—now, that’s manhood!
  — Stephen Kearse, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024