How to Use womanhood in a Sentence

womanhood

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  • What is your view of womanhood?
  • The book is a celebration of womanhood.
  • In the realm of womanhood, though, the ideal is a curse.
    — Michelle Santiago Cortés, refinery29.com, 1 Aug. 2021
  • And of course, there's Valley of the Dolls: a cult classic about the strength and power of womanhood.
    — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 4 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Point of view rotates among a cluster of girls on the verge of womanhood as the fierce, red-haired Janey enlists a crew of rebels.
    — Ellen Emry Heltzel, The Seattle Times, 24 July 2017
  • 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
  • The campaign is a tribute to the beauty of womanhood and the modern goddess for which Cult Gaia is named.
    — Lisa Lockwood, WWD, 7 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The rest of the book both expands and makes exact the roots of memory, madness and womanhood implied here.
    — Shara McCallum, New York Times, 30 June 2017
  • 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
  • Shelby’s access to womanhood makes her no less a killer.
    — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 18 May 2017
  • 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
  • On a deeply chilly winter night in New York, a celebration of womanhood left a warm, intimate impression in SoHo.
    — Gaby Keiderling, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2024
  • People are getting robbed of not only their money and their spirituality, they’re getting robbed of their womanhood and manhood.
    — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 30 Oct. 2024

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