Example sentences for: manhood

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

  • USAT also claims that lab analysts must determine "whether the quality or quantity [of semen] is sufficient" for accurate testing, meaning a legal break for the President might be an affront to his manhood.

  • The news about young manhood is no more encouraging.

  • She is played by Mamet's wife, Rebecca Pidgeon, whom he means us to find weirdly irresistible--I find her weird and resistible but not unattractive, having spent much of my early manhood pursuing similarly small, dark-eyed girls who looked as if they had some lewd secret that would only be divulged after a protracted psychodrama.

  • Two of the three stories in this volume concern the midlife crises of womanizers and all three are deemed mediocre knockoffs of Ford's earlier work, littered with characters "not complex enough to hold one's interest" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). Some, however, appreciate Ford's continued explorations of "contemporary manhood and its discontents" (Dan Cryer, Newsday ) and his "sinewy" prose, reminiscent of Twain and Hemingway (Michael Gorra, the New York Times Book Review ). "Nobody now writing looks ...

  • In 1968, an alcoholic, mentally ill writer named Frederick Exley published a "fictional memoir" whose subject was American manhood as embodied by football great Frank Gifford.


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