Example sentences for: feminine

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

  • We thought we could ignore the error and it would go away, but readers keep reminding us of what might be called, because of its prominence, a typogiraffical error: in Murdering the Language [OBITER DICTA, XX,4,5], the grammatically proper form would have been Omar m'a tuée, (reflecting the feminine gender of the preceding m ') and not, as printed, tué .

  • Opponents of nonsexist language show passionate loyalty to principles of etymology and tradition and unexpected respect for grace and style (admittedly frequent victims of inclusion of the feminine pronoun).

  • But when ripe feminine curves came back into fashion in the '30s, there appeared the double-breasted and cantilevered bra--the "uplift" bra.

  • And even Microsoft would project more power and mystery if it went by "M" rather than the prissy, feminine "MS."

  • These machines are pampered by de-personalizing everything they are fed, converting Carl or Clara to husband or wife or simply to spouse, my son Frank and daughter Kate to my children , and Lewis and Clark to the Lessor (the singular of course including the plural and the masculine the feminine or even the neuter, should a party be of undetermined sex).


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