Example sentences for: cross-dressing

How can you use “cross-dressing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 13 Ideological cross-dressing: Both conservatives and feminists seek to explain away their Jones-Hill flip-flop.

  • An actress named Hilary Swank gives one of the most rapturous performances I've ever seen as the cross-dressing Brandon Teena (a k a Teena Brandon) in Kimberly Peirce's stark and astonishingly beautiful debut feature, Boys Don't Cry . The movie opens with Teena being shorn of her hated female tresses and becoming "Brandon," who swaggers around in tight jeans and leather jackets.

  • Disney's animation studio rebounds from a series of disappointments ( Pocahontas , Hercules ) with a feature based on a Chinese legend about a cross-dressing female warrior, winning praise for featuring a proto-feminist heroine instead of its usual submissive maidens.

  • 6. Boys Don't Cry . Starkly beautiful, Kimberly Peirce's debut film has at its core a tragicomic irony: That the cross-dressing Brandon Teena, a k a Teena Brandon (the rapturous Hillary Swank) feels most at home among the sort of roughnecks who would kill her if they knew her true gender.

  • Cross-dressing, Guys and Dolls .


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