unsex

Example Sentences

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Lady Macbeth has no such qualms when she’s summoning evil spirits to unsex her in “Macbeth.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026

Going from unisex to unsex, The Lodge At Harvard Square, with 17 New England outlets, sells its women customers huge quantities of old-fashioned men's chino pants, whose seats rapidly become modishly baggy on distaff derri�res.

From Time Magazine Archive

George Eliot, as a true artist, sees what is faulty in the catastrophe, but she will not unsex her creation.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various

But the woman is drawn only by one feeling; she does not unsex herself,--she espouses holiness.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Gentlemen, we ask nothing that would unsex ourselves.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady