MASCULINE in a Sentence

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39 example sentences for MASCULINE, such as:

1. Now her reactions were all masculine.
2. Kennicott was masculine and experimental.
3. They're nice curtains, but I'd prefer something a little more masculine.
4. His masculine vanity would not permit such a thought to stay long in his mind.
5. She seemed so much on the outside of this affair, this purely masculine affair.

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 Meanings and Examples of MASCULINE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
masculine
 a.  of the male sex; not female; having the qualities of a man
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  Scarlett knew her mother cared nothing at all about war and politics and thought them masculine matters about which no lady could intelligently concern herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  The idea made him feel very masculine and he was doubly gentle as he seated her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  To Scarlett, this house cried out for the masculine smells of brandy, tobacco and Macassar oil, for hoarse voices and occasional curses, for guns, for whiskers, for saddles and bridles and for hounds underfoot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Had he been less obviously masculine, his ability to recall details of dresses, bonnets and coiffures would have been put down as the rankest effeminacy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  His masculine vanity would not permit such a thought to stay long in his mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  Now her reactions were all masculine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  But Scarlett was guided by no one but herself and was conducting her affairs in a masculine way which had the whole town talking about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  She seemed so much on the outside of this affair, this purely masculine affair.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  The two men laughed, a bit unwillingly, and it seemed to Scarlett that they drew together in united masculine disapproval of her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  Their glance sealed the bargain that the protection of Ashley Wilkes from a too harsh world was passing from one woman to another and that Ashley's masculine pride should never be humbled by this knowledge.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
13  But his greeting expressed no more than the satisfaction which every pretty woman expects to see reflected in masculine eyes; and the discovery, if distasteful to her vanity, was reassuring to her nerves.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
14  He belonged there, masculine in reefer and sweater and high-laced boots.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  Kennicott was masculine and experimental.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence:
1  For a generation of ballet goers, Rudolf Nureyev might exemplify the ideal of masculine grace.
2  There are three genders in German: masculine, feminine and neuter.
3  They're nice curtains, but I'd prefer something a little more masculine.