WOMAN in a Sentence

Learn WOMAN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
416 example sentences for WOMAN, such as:
1. She is a woman of proven ability.
2. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
3. She was a woman who hated to admit defeat.
4. The other woman was much smaller and slighter.
5. Each afraid to love woman, must have deep love.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of WOMAN
woman
 n.  a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man
 n.  a human female employed to do housework
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Though she was but seven years her husband's senior, and he was only twenty-eight, she was already an old woman.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  It was almost as if the other face, the face of the superseded woman, had obliterated that of the intruder.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
3  The other woman was much smaller and slighter.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  With the exception of the dark-eyed woman's chair, which looked like a soiled relic of luxury bought at a country auction, the furniture was of the roughest kind.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
5  The tall woman, who had moved away from us toward the dresser, took no notice; but the other, from her cushioned niche, answered complainingly, in a high thin voice.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
6  Beatrice Tarleton was a busy woman, having on her hands not only a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroes and eight children, but the largest horse-breeding farm in the state as well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
7  She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself, and the sight of India Wilkes and Stuart at the speaking had been too much for her predatory nature.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  Mammy emerged from the hall, a huge old woman with the small, shrewd eyes of an elephant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  She did, and a sweet quiet thing she is, with never a word to say for herself, like a woman should be.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
10  As always, she wondered how her loud, insensitive father had managed to marry a woman like her mother, for never were two people further apart in birth, breeding and habits of mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
11  Ellen O'Hara was thirty-two years old, and, according to the standards of her day, she was a middle-aged woman, one who had borne six children and buried three.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fiery little husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  His wife was a snarly-haired woman, sickly and washed-out of appearance, the mother of a brood of sullen and rabbity-looking children-- a brood which was increased regularly every year.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  The man owned the property, and the woman managed it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
Example Sentence: (206 in 14 pages)
1  Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
2  The woman secretaries should be employed for their ability not for their looks.
3  She is a woman of proven ability.
4  According to one survey, one woman in eight is infertile.
5  Marrying a rich woman helped him achieve status.
6  He noticed a woman in a black dress sitting across from him.
7  Each afraid to love woman, must have deep love.
8  Strong woman is will cry,but never admit defeat.
9  She was a woman who hated to admit defeat.
10  A strong woman will cry, but will not admit defeat.
11  The only secret a woman can keep is that of her age.
12  She still has the energy and sex appeal of a woman less than half her age.
13  He was a slave ten years ago and was ransomed later by an old rich woman.
14  The woman spoke almost without pausing for breath.
15  The future of society is in the hands of mothers; if the world was lost through woman she alone can save it.