How to Use womanhood in a Sentence
womanhood
noun- What is your view of womanhood?
- The book is a celebration of womanhood.
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In the realm of womanhood, though, the ideal is a curse.
— Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 1 Aug. 2021 -
The Culture on her new book and thoughts on Black womanhood.
— Stephanie Tharpe, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021 -
The idea of reimagining the lives of the Bronte sisters on the cusp of womanhood was just too good to resist.
— John Hopewell, Variety, 15 Feb. 2022 -
Not the power of a woman to do what a man does, but the power of womanhood, itself.
— Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024 -
There was a chasm of difference between the way Black and white womanhood was viewed.
— Allure, 13 May 2022 -
That album, with its deep blue cover, set the tone for me, a young girl on the cusp between childhood and womanhood in 1977.
— Karina Bland, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2020 -
And in a novel that is steeped in the stew and issues of womanhood, Perkins-Valdez manages to get even the male characters on point.
— Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2022 -
Isn't that what dolls so often do, after all; give us a trial space to play at the messy and constant work of womanhood?
— Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 July 2023 -
Race and womanhood have nothing to do with Omar’s problems.
— Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 20 July 2019 -
These are renderings of her childhood and young womanhood as seen through the patina of old age.
— Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023 -
For me, my courage, bravery, and strength help define my womanhood.
— Sara Altschule, SELF, 3 Dec. 2018 -
Mimmi, Emma and Rönkkö are girls at the cusp of womanhood, trying to draw their own contours.
— Brent Lang, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021 -
Mimmi, Emma, and Rönkkö are girls at the cusp of womanhood, trying to draw their own contours.
— Natalie Lin, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2021 -
This is to finish the fasting and to celebrate the transition from a girl to womanhood.
— Meghan Sullivan, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2021 -
Her questions—on the past, on the present, on purpose and motherhood and womanhood—are eternal.
— Ashley Leath, Country Living, 1 July 2020 -
Rina Sukhraj does a fine job showing us the most girl-like character of these young people on the verge of womanhood.
— Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Nov. 2020 -
Shot over four years, The Brink of Dreams follows them from childhood to womanhood, facing the most crucial choices of their lives.
— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024 -
In the early 1200s, Lady Catherine (Bella Ramsey) is a girl on the cusp of womanhood.
— Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2022 -
But, for all the swans’ monologues about the challenges of womanhood, the nature of their suffering remains vague.
— Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024 -
How does one navigate love and womanhood in a city that’s burning?
— Adriana E. Ramirez, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2022 -
My first three films all felt tied together by these themes of girlhood and womanhood.
— Keaton Bell, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2021 -
Meghan also spoke about having a daughter changed her point of view on womanhood.
— Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2022 -
Girlfriends was the pinnacle of friendship, womanhood and style in the early aughts.
— Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 1 Aug. 2023 -
Nonetheless, the song never loses sight as an ode to the divine feminine and all of the majesty of womanhood.
— Billboard, 25 June 2021 -
Because this is the version of womanhood the film satirizes.
— Olivia Petter, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2022 -
At some point, the reward of true freedom outweighs the burden of burning bridges that lead to respectable womanhood.
— Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, refinery29.com, 9 Sep. 2024 -
Growing up in the 2000s, though, Chlapecka saw what became of women who dared to enjoy womanhood in the public eye.
— Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2022 -
In the process, my identity, foreignness and womanhood were weaponized against me.
— Ana Diamond, CNN, 21 Oct. 2022
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