WOMEN in a Sentence

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Women of colour who face racist practices can not be simply incorporated into models which assume white women as the norm.

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 Meanings and Examples of WOMEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
women
 n.  (plural) an adult human female
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Down the side wall facing the window stood a row of kitchen chairs from which the older women had just risen.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  When they returned to the kitchen the two women were already at breakfast.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
3  THE QUERULOUS DRONE ceased as I entered Frome's kitchen, and of the two women sitting there I could not tell which had been the speaker.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  Their beauty she accepted as casually as the air she breathed and the water she drank, for she had never consciously seen beauty in anything but women's faces, horses, silk dresses and like tangible things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  He had no knowledge of the dawn-till-midnight activities of these women, chained to supervision of cooking, nursing, sewing and laundering.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  These were traits of which Southern women were proud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  If she knew little about men's minds, she knew even less about the minds of women, for they interested her less.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  To her, all women, including her two sisters, were natural enemies in pursuit of the same prey--man.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  All women with the one exception of her mother.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  Under the arbor sat the married women, their dark dresses decorous notes in the surrounding color and gaiety.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  Married women never had any fun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  She could think of nothing to say and so merely looked at him, wondering why men were such fools as to think women interested in such matters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  It was not often that Mr. McRae had the opportunity to talk about war, the way his women folks shushed him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Most women will be offered an ultrasound scan during pregnancy, although it's not obligatory.
17  Breast cancer is the leading cause of death for American women in their forties.
18  Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women in this country.
19  She believes the research understates the amount of discrimination women suffer.
20  The women took an instant dislike to one another.
21  Many women achievers appear to pose a threat to their male colleagues.
22  The same general guidelines on when to dress formally apply to both men and women.
23  Women of colour who face racist practices can not be simply incorporated into models which assume white women as the norm.
24  He would attack at night, preying on lone women in their twenties or thirties.
25  Pete's attitude towards women really scares me.
26  I find your attitude towards these women quite repugnant.
27  He's very conservative in his attitude to women.
28  The audience consisted mostly of women.
29  Information is also available on women's health care.
30  The members voted to bar women from the club.