FEMALE in a Sentence

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That was her own private affair, and the one point on which, in her own queer, female way, she was serious to the bottom of her soul.

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 Meanings and Examples of FEMALE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
female
 n.  for or composed of women or girls
Classic Sentence: (135 in 10 pages)
1  No argument or persuasion could ever induce him to set up a female establishment after the manner of his companions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
2  The supply of adult women was running short, and polygamy without a female population on which to draw was a barren doctrine indeed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
3  Even that unlucky female, Mrs. Sparsit, fallen from her pinnacle of exultation into the Slough of Despond, was not in so bad a plight as that remarkable man and self-made Humbug, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
4  A side-door at the upper end of the hall now opened behind the banquet table, and Rowena, followed by four female attendants, entered the apartment.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  In a low-arched and dusky passage, by which he endeavoured to work his way to the hall of the castle, he was interrupted by a female form.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  She performed her task with a graceful and dignified simplicity and modesty, which might, even in more civilized days, have served to redeem it from whatever might seem repugnant to female delicacy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  But the housekeeper had served Sir Geoffrey for many years, and the dried-up, elderly, superlatively correct female you could hardly call her a parlour-maid, or even a woman.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  Connie disliked her; the spoilt, false little female.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
9  That was her own private affair, and the one point on which, in her own queer, female way, she was serious to the bottom of her soul.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
10  She had been supposed to have rather a good figure, but now she was out of fashion: a little too female, not enough like an adolescent boy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
11  Her thighs, too, they used to look so quick and glimpsy in their female roundness, somehow they too were going flat, slack, meaningless.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  Mrs Bolton also kept a cherishing eye on Connie, feeling she must extend to her her female and professional protection.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
13  He dreaded her will, her female will, and her modern female insistency.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  She had wakened the sleeping dogs of old voracious anger in him, anger against the self-willed female.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
15  Suddenly, with all the force of her female instinct, she was shoving him off.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Example Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
16  The male and female take turns to sit on the nest.
17  The male uses song to attract a female to his nest site.
18  The female nude is surely the ultimate test of artistic skill.
19  The male of the species has more brightly-coloured feathers than the female.
20  The male of the species is almost indistinguishable from the female.
21  He was always leering at female members of staff.
22  He's been taking liberties with our female staff.
23  The word “sex” is simply that—a word to denote whether a person is male or female.
24  The reason for the increase in female enrolment is multi-faceted.
25  One recent study in the country found at least half of female drug users had engaged in commercial sex.
26  It was an amazing year for female performances and to be nominated amongst them was really incredible.
27  The film won four Oscars in total with Hilary Swank picking up Best Actress for her portrayal of a female boxer and Morgan Freeman named Best Supporting Actor.
28  Having a female bodyguard is more than just a status symbol in Russia.
29  I do not envy the judges who have to select this year's Miss America from this collection of female pulchritude.
30  Each of the female quartet is physically and emotionally different, which enhances a strong historical tale.