Example sentences for: unmanly

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

  • The geezer's nurse (Philip Seymour Hoffman) listens to his semi-coherent monologues then decides to get in touch with the dying man's estranged son (Tom Cruise), who gives inspirational lectures in which men are exhorted to "turn women into sperm receptacles" and to leave behind their "unmanly" pasts.

  • DC just shelled out a fortune for a new MCI stadium downtown, and a new Redskins stadium, and every idiotic newsman and woman is required to nod knowingly when the sports guy makes some obscure reference to some impenetrable football play, and anyone like me who finds the entire exercise faintly ridiculous is regarded as unpatriotic and unmanly.

  • The cover story bemoans the decline of manliness and blames liberals, whose attempts to eliminate gender, coupled with the rise of the single-mother family, have bred a generation of "under-fathered" boys who are aggressive and violent but unmanly.

  • The son gets a double dose of his unmanly past this night, since a female TV journalist (April Grace) has uncovered the history he has determinedly concealed and is eating through his mask of machismo on camera.


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