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

Now the effect of the parasite seems to be to unsex as it were its victims so far as their outward appearance is concerned.

From Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects by Saunders, Edward

Mr. Foote remarked, that if there was any other Committee of this House that would or could unsex the female sex, he had no objection to the reference moved.

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

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