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How to use woman in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Woman means an adult female human. Example: “The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.”

Examples of woman by meaning

nounAn adult female human.

  • the first woman president of Spain
  • During World War II, many women worked as blacksmiths in the shipbuilding industry and found they liked the challenging, independent work.1979, Muriel Lederer, Blue-collar jobs for women, page 59
  • But of course Britain since 1979 has had a woman prime minister, while no woman has ever come near to being president of the United States.1985, Anthony King, The British Prime Minister, Duke University Press, →ISBN

nounAll female humans collectively; womankind.

  • Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  • For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?1997, Bob Grant, Let's Be Heard, page 42
  • Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.2011, Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In, page 109

nounA female person, usually an adult: a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien...

  • Sir, have you ever served with any Bajoran women?1993, Michael Piller, “Emissary”, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Chief O'Brien (Colm Meaney)
  • To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men.2003, Amelia Jones, The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 37
  • One of the elves, a woman with long auburn hair, was garbed identically to the two dwarves.2007, Clifford B. Bowyer, The Siege of Zoldex, Silver Leaf Books, LLC, →ISBN, page 307

nounA wife (or sometimes a fiancée or girlfriend).

  • And then, when he lies with his woman, the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.1914, D. H. Lawrence, Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays, chapter 7: "Of Being and Not-Being"

nounA female person who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing. (Used as the last element of a...

  • Perhaps my problem is that I am a cat woman.2004, Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount, page 70

verbTo staff with female labor.

  • Apparently the Sixty-ninth Street office of Bagby Answers, Inc., was being womaned for the day from other offices.1956, Rex Stout, Three Witnesses, The Viking Press, page 54
  • The information desk is now manned (womaned) by someone whose main job is to help you reserve time slots for the computers or guide you through the arduous process of “logging on.”2010, Julia Glass, The Widower's Tale, page 77

More sentences with woman

  • The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.From the entry the
  • There is just one woman in town who can help us.From the entry be
  • (or, dialectally:) It is just one woman in town who can help us.From the entry be
  • The woman guarding us looks like a professional, but I can take her!From the entry take
  • My grandmother is a very active woman and is quite young for her age.From the entry young
  • On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.From the entry would
  • The woman known until now as Witness X has been unmasked after a court ruling.From the entry x
  • In the western world, women usually have long hair while men usually have short hair.From the entry hair
  • Listen, I'm a grown woman, and I don't have time to deal with your petty teenage drama.From the entry grown
  • Are there countries where polygamy is legal for both men and women?From the entry polygamy
  • Jim has a real complex about working for a woman boss.From the entry complex
  • The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.From the entry by
  • A pregnant woman during labor normally experiences a number of sharp contractions.From the entry sharp
  • During childbirth, there are times when the obstetrician advises the woman not to push.From the entry push
  • He married an American woman in order to get an American passport.From the entry American
  • This new talk show will give a platform to everyday men and women.From the entry platform
  • The central figure in the painting is a young woman, surrounded by a flight of angels.From the entry flight
  • I've always been a healthy, fit woman, but right now I really don't feel very well.From the entry well
  • This included criticism of the generic use of man to include men and women.From the entry generic
  • I will fall in love with the wrong women time and again.From the entry will
  • Women, as well as children, have their thoughts or emotions routinely silenced.From the entry silence
  • The obese woman couldn't ease her bulk through the narrow passageway.From the entry bulk
  • The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband.From the entry murder
  • Infertility is a considerable obstacle for women wishing to make a family.From the entry infertility
  • The woman in this film is not shy about getting her kit off, is she?From the entry get one's kit off
  • He got lucky in the past week with two different women.From the entry get lucky
  • The woman does not even have one stick of furniture moved in yet.From the entry furniture

Meaning of woman

  1. noun An adult female human.
  2. noun All female humans collectively; womankind.
  3. noun A female person, usually an adult: a (generally adult) female sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.

Full definition of woman

Questions about woman in a sentence

How do you use woman in a sentence?
Woman is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.”
What is a short sentence with woman?
“the first woman president of Spain”
What does woman mean?
Woman means an adult female human.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woman (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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