womanhood

Example Sentences

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Her unsteady ascent toward womanhood coincides, hysterically, with the theater company’s descent into chaos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

"We respectfully emphasise that womanhood and female biology are not uniform," they claimed.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

When “Frankenstein” was first published without Shelley’s name, and chatter about its author began to spread, an early commentary in the British Critic scorned the dissonance between Shelley’s womanhood and the novel’s monstrous narrative.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

The characters’ propensity for ugly faces, silliness and a bit of grossness too, stems from the portrayals of girlhood and young womanhood that appeal to them.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

It was like a sudden turn of fortune, to be thrust one day into womanhood.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein