womanlike

Example Sentences

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“We wanted to make ourselves look pretty and attractive and womanlike, in spite of the uniform,” said Nina Shebalina, a mechanic in the 586th Regiment.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Her great moment had come; yet now that it was here, womanlike she wished it away—not gone forever, oh no, but waiting just round the corner of the future.

From The Princess Virginia by Guipon, Leon

Nanette, womanlike, cried many times during the nights because of the lack of a mirror and a comb for her untidy hair.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various

Perhaps it was because she had no fear that she played so boldly, recognizing in him the true gentleman, and womanlike, presuming on this knowledge.

From The Salamander by Johnson, Owen

But womanlike she was ready to believe that he would relent.

From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness