feminine

Example Sentences

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Rowbottom’s willingness to move toward culturally uncomfortable material is central to her work, he stressed, treating so-called lowbrow or feminine cultural obsessions not as guilty pleasures, but as material worthy of literary merit.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

Rowbottom’s husband, the novelist Jon Lindsey, pointed to her instinct for subjects that literary fiction has historically dismissed — either as unserious, feminine or culturally overexposed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

“The Gen Alpha girl is just really feminine and not super edgy,” said Michelle Goad, the retailer’s chief brand officer.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

In Hollywood films and literary tropes, spiders come ideologically loaded and are frequently coupled with the feminine.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

At first, my friends grumbled because we had to change a lot of the feminine endings, and so the rhymes all went to pot.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez