manhood

Example Sentences

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Just as guns were used to re-create strength in the post-antebellum South, they were also sold as a tool that helped owners reclaim their masculinity and manhood after the loss of the Civil War.

From Scientific American

The two men’s rivalry becomes more of a struggle with the dark past they share and with how the terms of manhood often manifest in violence and domination.

From New York Times

Juicy’s the sullen outcast; he’s gay, emotionally aware, intellectual and not the embodiment of Black manhood that Rev expects him to be.

From New York Times

She also said privately about Trump: “It’s like a manhood thing for him.”

From Los Angeles Times

Buffalo Boy is both a lampooning and subsumption of the cowboy myth, recalibrating frontier notions of manhood.

From New York Times