Example sentences for: manly

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

  • The English writer Daniel O'Brien, in his modest, more objective new book, Clint Eastwood Film-Maker , suggests that Eastwood wouldn't actually put up with Parker for a second: The saxophonist's unruly passion, his commitment to his art, is the antithesis of Eastwood's manly, frugal, shoot-it-and-move-on way of working.

  • The psychologist Carol Gilligan, in her fine book In a Different Voice , has probed the destructive consequences of manly silence--for men themselves as much as for the women and children who fall under the spell of this silence.

  • Monday at 9:00 p.m., Bravo is running the Academy Award-winning Cinema Paradiso , while CBS goes for mass appeal with Sleepless in Seattle . In need of more manly fare?

  • Asked the about the expression "Suffer fools gladly" (Corinthians 11:19), the first 10 people surveyed ventured a source with disarming speed: "Wordsworth," "Hamlet ," "Hamlet ," "Hamlet ," "Wordsworth," "Beowulf ," "Chaucer," "Macbeth ," "Herrick," and "Gerard Manly Hopkins."

  • The Manly maidens shoot the surf, Or bake their bingies on the shingly shore.


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