How To Use Womanly In A Sentence

She was older, a yellow-haired journeyman holist almost womanly in the fullness of her body. THE BROKEN GOD
True it is, that one can scarcely call _that_ education which teaches woman everything except herself, -- _except_ the things that relate to her own peculiar womanly destiny, and, on plea of the holiness of ignorance, sends her without one word of just counsel into the temptations of life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
You may have noticed, Mrs Jordan, that we are finally around to respecting your womanly judgment.
She wished to hide her face in her book, but feared to look unwomanly, so played with her gloves instead, looking down.
She stood tall, unlike Winnie, she was 5'8, with a nice slender figure, with womanly curves.

The literal translation is Manly deeds, womanly words or Deeds are male, words are female.
Furthermore, the Scottish curlers had succeeded by deploying the ‘traditional womanly virtues of patience, lower lip-biting and sweeping’.
The sight of him filled her with a womanly sympathy.
But there was one - an older girl with womanly hips and breasts, and lips as full as Alice's.
Not only has she been in great demand, but her youthful on-screen tendency to look pained and always on the verge of tears has been replaced by a saucy, aggressive, womanly tone.
Small wonder that, mounted on her fiery little mustang, untrammeled by her short gray riding-habit, free as the wind itself that blew through the folds of her flannel blouse, with her brown hair half-loosed beneath her slouched felt hat, she seemed to Dick a more beautiful and womanly figure than the stiff buckramed simulation of man's angularity and precision he had seen in the parks. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
Although she is prone to gain weight over her lifetime, at this point she doesn't have a ‘pot belly’ or ‘love handles,’ just nice womanly curves!
What you call womanly honor I have been taught to hold as sacred as you yourself, and I have kept it as untainted as any girl living. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
The other side of the bind is that competitiveness has traditionally been viewed as unwomanly.
She goes to designers who know how to flatter a womanly figure. Times, Sunday Times
Micheaux uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
As an example of womanly evil, she is criticised; the female sexuality that causes these perceptions remains the foundation for both her good and her evil.
I have a womanly body so they've made me feel in proportion. The Sun
In reference to women, however, and particularly in this scene, the moon also symbolises womanly beauty and is associated with the female principle yin.
There came a feminine voice was feminine, soft and womanly.
Look at your womanly physique in the mirror and stick out your gut so that you can complain and whine even more about how you're getting fat.
Reliques he had left behind him, I meane the Friars hood and Cowle, which shewing to their sister, and sharpely reproving her unwomanly behaviour: they left her in no meane discomfort, returning home to their owne houses, with their conquered spolle of the forlorne The Decameron
However the unwomanly freedom they enjoy in the public, commercial realm of the city only confirms the cultural connection between domesticity and chastity, between the walls of the household and the sealed-off female body.
I wonder if it would be unwomanly behavior if I began to play with my utensils.
So you are only criticizing women when they do unwomanly things.
Not that she is unwomanly. Times, Sunday Times
She had thought that since she was so unwomanly, that she wouldn't know how to dress the part of her native people.
She used her womanly wiles/charms to persuade him to change his mind.
So, yeah, it's really nice having the women around and having that womanly support.
As women entered the retail workforce, authorities identified ideal characteristics of the new retail system as womanly.
The exercise of the voice on the stage is womanly, while she gives out the thoughts of another; but suppose (and it is not unsupposable) a living female Shakespeare to appear on a platform, and utter her inspirations, delicacy is shocked, decency is outraged, and society turns away in disgust! History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
Delicately frayed shirts, skirts and dresses are formfitting and highlight the womanly curves we've been blessed with.
But in context virile and manly are always distinguished from servile or slavish; Tocqueville does not explicitly or implicitly contrast them to feminine or womanly.
A womanly figure needs more support than this offers. The Sun
But I must admit there are times that I wished I looked a bit more womanly than teenageish.
the logical clearness of her arguments...condemned her as eccentric and unwomanly
She accepted his expressions of sympathy and gratitude for seeing him, with sweet womanly grace.
It had a feminine girlish quality in the cut, but a bold, womanly quality in color.
The gecko glowered at Nawin with appetite and fixed interest as if he were an esculent appetize -- the gecko crawling on the railing of the BTS Skytrain station looking down at the small womanly morsels and traffic below and amorous Nawin doing the same but as he glanced up dizzyingly at the facade of the colossal Intercontinental Hotel with its eerie pale-blue light diffused throughout, he felt like he was falling into a deep - blue eternal space. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
She's not what I call womanly, and I hate these unsexed females. The Simpkins Plot
The pursuit of education and a career is secondary and may even be perceived as ‘un-Greek’ or unwomanly.
There's a huge underlying feeling/history in a lot of cultures that to be intellectually sharp and independent is somehow unwomanly.
His list of virtues is a remarkably unaggressive, uncompetitive, one might almost say womanly list.
‘The doctor asked me if I wanted a pill that would still let me have ‘periods’, and I said I would - somehow it kept me feeling womanly,’ she says.
The kitten heel offers both feminine grace and womanly comfort, as do ballet flats.
She was tall, but, unlike Solange, she was composed less of sinews and bone, but rather of elegantly-developed womanly curves.
She accepted his expressions of sympathy and gratitude for seeing him, with sweet womanly grace.
Editors nowadays were often surprised in their sanctums by committees of three from some pestiferous unwomanly club or other, and they had not come, alackaday, to have their handkerchiefs picked up with courtly speeches, graced with an apt quotation from "Maud. V. V.'s Eyes
She giggled in a girlish sort of way completely contradictory to her very womanly body.
Lately I had noticed that my figure was developing more into a womanly figure.
Not very PC, I know, but if you'd spent your whole life wishing you had womanly curves up top as opposed to just down below, you'd understand.
A mix of gardenia and chypre notes, it's a knowing, womanly concoction that's set to be a fragrance must. Times, Sunday Times
You don't think that's unwomanly of me, do you?
The health of American wives, their muliebrity or womanly power, is sapped in various ways. The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
Even the shade of pink used is more in keeping with your blog – dusky and womanly rather than the girly.nicola. follis | Heels
Everyone in her family smoked, and to young Marcheela it was elegant and womanly to sit, her legs crossed, with that thin white cylinder between her fingers, blowing rings of smoke.
The trial judge said police had raided a party thrown by the 19 men and found them dancing "in a womanly fashion, " wearing women's clothes and makeup.
She says: 'They looked so womanly and their figures seemed balanced. The Sun
Barney you write with an almost womanly insight, detailing as you normally do things such as the curve of a calf, the slabbed definitions, the plucked eyebrows, the fumbling disappointments. Can Joe Hart save himself from the curse of the England keeper? | Barney Ronay
She was small, without much of a womanly body, and only looked to be her age.
womanly virtues of gentleness and compassion
I have curves and a womanly figure. Times, Sunday Times
Their idea blossoms gradually into the film's central story, which has the womanly girls shedding their skivvies for the shoot.
She also wrote in what must have seemed at the time in an unwomanly way, not being emotionally involved with her characters.
A skimpy black dress hugs her shapely womanly figure with matching ankle-high black boots.
The womanly power revered in primitive societies was within me, as I teased my hair and pulled up the starched petticoats of the late fifties.
She also wrote in what must have seemed at the time in an unwomanly way, not being emotionally involved with her characters.
And we were as delighted as she was when she stretched that t shirt over her womanly form and paraded round in front of the camera for us…
In the other beating scenes, unwomanly behavior - both Orlean's and his mother's physical attacks against Baptiste - contributes to the hero's loss of self-control.
She points out that early 20th-century African American writers felt that repudiating accusations of unmanly and unwomanly sexual behavior ‘was crucial to black people's changing their subjugated social status’.
Although none of her duties are unwomanly, Enid's nursing threatens the conventions of small-town life.
And I haven't mentioned the deep manly love that Palamon and Arcite profess for one another when they are not competing to win Emilia, nor Emilia's early professed deep womanly love for the otherwise unmentioned Flavinia (though if I was directing this I would make her the jailer's daughter). Linkspam for 28-5-2009
Mother is ripe, full-breasted, at the peak of her womanly powers.
This game of guile has the womanly characteristic of dangerous beauty.
It warms the cockles of my female heart to know that such womanly wiles still continue to manipulate and convince.
She wished to hide her face in her book, but feared to look unwomanly, so played with her gloves instead, looking down.
I have seen these things before and recognize a couple features - the simple, childlike head (pigtailed here) atop a womanly body.
She was dressed in a red gown, with a tight bodice that accented her womanly features.
He thought it was such an unwomanly, tomboy thing.
She certainly had grown a lot, her body had grown womanly curves, and she was no longer childlike in appearance, but that of a sophisticated and strikingly beautiful young woman.
I have not been terribly interested in the Post/Baldridge/ et al. cyclopedia approaches how to set the table and arrange your guests ,and which forks and spoons to use when and how, which glasses for the reds, whites, burgundies, etc., is pretty ubiquitously available, in as little or much detail as one might desire but rather in deeper treatments of the underlying elements of gentlemanly and gentlewomanly character and conduct. Archive 2008-09-07
That girl, whom I so loved, whom I treated as my child, who was to me an image of what they call womanly purity, throws herself away upon my most detested enemy, a loathsome corpse, whose body, soul, and spirit had already decayed. Debts of Honor
Thus, they would criticise the Queen's feminine irresolution, female fickleness and womanly compassion towards papists and traitors.
School uniforms tend to hide all those womanly curves!
In one of the earliest sequences of ‘Mo’ Better Blues,’ Spike Lee's new film about jazz, the camera lingers almost lecherously over the womanly curves of a trumpet and saxophone.
They don't have that inner womanly beauty that used to come from the softness and dignity that used to make woman so attractive.
Part of that is her womanly mystique, the undeniable eroticism of the unknown.
It's cheesy and badly dubbed from the original American English BUT that last bedroom scene that ends with a shot from outside the room, the sound of a womanly pleased giggle and then "You're right on target". Archive 2008-01-01
Presenter and last year's Best Actress winner Nicole Kidman combined sleek and womanly with her silver charmeuse gown finished in feathers.
I have a womanly shape. The Sun
She had a classical, womanly shape.
I call womanly; it was not like Ethelbertha at all. Three Men on the Bummel
She was sharp-witted and sharper-tongued, able to skewer an idea or an opponent, a most unwomanly trait he found utterly exciting. PAINT THE WIND
Defending the decision as a way to make the female participants to not only be distinguishable from the men, but that it also made them more "womanly" and "elegant".
Others must rely on foam-padded bras and girdles to create womanly curves.
She was an independently minded sister of a convent in Mexico, who drew criticism from the ecclesiastical hierarchy for the supposedly unwomanly nature of her celebrated poetry.
What you call womanly honor I have been taught to hold as sacred as you yourself, and Serapis — Volume 06
He uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
So the sort of events that were acceptable for women were things like croquet and tennis, because they wouldn't sweat and get terribly hot and look unwomanly.
You realise that you have a body shape emerging - womanly curves and things - and that clothes fit nicely around them.
This is the starting point for a barrowload of stereotypes about feminine sensitivity and womanly feeling to be wheeled out into the courtroom, and indeed the media.
She was inclined to believe her, what with their unwomanly behavior in his presence.
While in the right photo, she dons an elegant white dress showing off a more womanly adult body and mature expression.
But having castigated male behavior, she drew back from such unwomanly outrage.
If you ask anyone what the word feminine means, you might get the response, "womanly, coy, or pretty. Forbes.com: News
I have a womanly shape. The Sun
Micheaux uses contemporaneous notions of gender as a way of naturalizing positive and negative character qualities as manly or unmanly, womanly or unwomanly.
Study, exercise, housework, and many wholesome pleasures kept her a happy, hearty creature, yearly growing in womanly graces, yet always preserving the innocent freshness girls lose so soon when too early set upon the world's stage and given a part to play. Rose in Bloom
But the woman is more than normally apprehensive… her daughter has a brain injury that has left her unusually childlike, even in her mature young womanly body.
She goes to designers who know how to flatter a womanly figure. Times, Sunday Times
Beyond, (assuming a more hopeful tone,) the vertebration of the manly and womanly personalism of our western world, can only be, and is, indeed, to be, (I hope,) its all penetrating Religiousness. Democratic Vistas: Paras. 60–89. Collect
The bewtifull and honorable damosels sate in order vpon the Benches, compast about all along by the sides of the walles vppon the right side, and the best of the Court, with a rare and strange kinde of womanly dressing vppon their heads, as is in the world, with the tresses of their haire lapt and bowed vp in Caules of gold. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
Only when I became a mother did I come to appreciate my womanly body.
As if womanly curves out the wazoo, a spitfire attitude, and sexy as hell accent wasn't enough, she had to go and be queen to the bloodsuckers too.
It felt great on her body, fit the womanly curves perfectly.
Delicately frayed shirts, skirts and dresses are formfitting and highlight the womanly curves we've been blessed with.
While male kings did so by emulating such male gendered qualities as martial skills and leadership ability, female kings had to emulate womanly qualities.
Less concerned with the standing of Belle Cora than with the legitimacy of the vigilantes' supporters, however, Gertrude accused the pro-vigilante women of being unchristian, uncharitable, and unwomanly.
(assuming a more hopeful tone,) the vertebration of the manly and womanly personalism of our western world, can only be, and is, indeed, to be, (I hope,) its all-penetrating Religiousness. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
Thus had her first sense of horror been blunted, and blushless become her keen, womanly shame. Hubert's Wife A Story for You
It had a feminine girlish quality in the cut, but a bold, womanly quality in color.
She says: 'They looked so womanly and their figures seemed balanced. The Sun
However, her former boss and mentor Larissa “Riss” Lincoln gets Bella a position as beauty expert columnist at Womanly World, a magazine that caters to her mom and grandma. Confessions of a Beauty Addict-Nadine Haobsh « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
Passing between the corporeal portals of their womanly flesh, my pale-toned puniness frightened me. The Best American Poetry 2008
But it was a robustness in a finer than the wonted sense, a vigorous daintiness, it might be called, which gave an impression of virility with none of the womanly left out. Amateur Night
She giggled in a girlish sort of way completely contradictory to her very womanly body.
I have a womanly body so they've made me feel in proportion. The Sun
Nobody - I mean nobody - should play witness to my usually repressed womanly scream at that hour of the day, most especially half-awake commuters.
Crossing that bridge to Mercado Sonora, Quetzal walks gamely forward, a pixieish figure, with his womanly legs, bushy black locks, his delicate air. Down and Delirious in Mexico City
The sight of him filled her with a womanly sympathy.
But, again, I'll leave the matter of Maryland's manly deeds and womanly words - fatti maschii, parole femine - to the mercy of others.
It could be part culture that being womanly is being pleasant and agreeable. A Kuranian Take on the Religious Gender Gap, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
I have curves and a womanly figure. Times, Sunday Times
Curvaceous, decidedly feminine and womanly I would say, rather than waifish and childlike.
Eleanor just abused him thoroughly, which wasn't very womanly in his opinion.
A womanly figure needs more support than this offers. The Sun
Her hair was bundled out of the way in a most unfeminine way that somehow only made her more womanly. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Plus she had the most fantastic body: curvaceous, womanly, and with wonderful glorious breasts that I found mesmerizing.
She referred in a positive way to the 'traditional womanly goals of marriage and motherhood' several times in her talk.
The emphasized womanly duties have brought, up to now, not only women into ecclesiastical diaconal service, but also many priests and lay people.
It all made me start thinking about my days in Home Economics class with Mrs. B. To say that I was an unlikely candidate to excel in the womanly arts epitomizes the concept of understatement.
A skimpy black dress hugs her shapely womanly figure with matching ankle-high black boots.

How To Use Womanly In A Sentence

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