Example sentences for: sexism

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

  • It's idiotic," I ask you: Isn't sexism idiotic?

  • One of the most telling and effective exposés of the entrenched nature of sexism in language is Douglas Hofstaedter's pseudonymous parody “A person paper on purity in language,” written as a supposed debunking of “silly prattle” about racist language.

  • Her book establishes a framework for such analysis designed both to describe sexism in a text and, through a process she names feminist stylistics, to deconstruct the way in which point of view, agency, metaphor, and other features of the text are unexpectedly closely related to matters of gender.

  • There is a subtle sexism in that: The female domestic tycoon is obliged to behave better than the guys.

  • Chapter 3, Generalizations, treats with good sense methods that can be employed to avoid sexism in a wide variety of constructions.


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