womanhood

Example Sentences

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The conversation shifts into a broader reflection on womanhood.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

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

They reach womanhood when they turn thirteen, just like boys reach manhood, and then they’re women and they become wives.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness