womanlike

Example Sentences

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“We wanted to make ourselves look pretty and attractive and womanlike, in spite of the uniform,” said Nina Shebalina, a mechanic in the 586th Regiment.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

And, womanlike, she wondered if this passion of the mind had drawn its strength and colour from the earlier wasted passion of his heart?

From The Builders by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

But womanlike she was ready to believe that he would relent.

From The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Once safe in this asylum, womanlike, she hastened to peep out at the arrivals.

From The Girl From Tim's Place by Munn, Charles Clark

"Is he good?" asked Sylvia, womanlike, beginning with the morals.

From Moods by Alcott, Louisa May