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

Gentlemen, we ask nothing that would unsex ourselves.

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

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

Yet they and all of you are dreadfully exercised for fear having a vote would unsex women.

From The Convert by Robins, Elizabeth