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Example sentences for "woman"

Lexicographically close words:
wolues; wolverene; wolverine; wolverines; wolves; womanhood; womanish; womankind; womanless; womanlike
  1. It was very hard, she said, for a woman at her time of life to be neglected for such creatures.

  2. The poor woman was either so unwell, or so much agitated, whilst she was telling this story, that the magistrate ordered her a chair, and Mr. Reid himself was pale as death with fear!

  3. We see it in his treatment of the woman taken in adultery, and in his excuse for the woman who poured precious ointment on his garment as an offering of devotion and love, which is here all in all.

  4. She certainly has the finest hand of any woman in the world.

  5. These are creatures to whom man or woman plotting some dire mischief might resort for occasional consultation.

  6. His best-known play is "The Woman Killed with Kindness.

  7. No woman could be supposed to write a finer love-letter in verse.

  8. Doubt not that his heart yearned over these poor ignorant Samaritans, and over the sinful woman who came to draw water at the well.

  9. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

  10. I know that it is so for me; and therefore I suppose it is so for every man and woman in this Church.

  11. She is now a woman of seventy-six years, and is the same wise-minded, sensible person that she was when she wrote her chosen sentence in her diary fully seventy years ago.

  12. She is in a large sense the leader of the woman movement in her country--a movement which is represented in a stricter sense by Mrs. Gladstone, the wife of England's foremost statesman.

  13. Cuyler had baptized and received into church fellowship and united in marriage the little woman with whom he was talking; but Ruth, even if she had known these circumstances, was in no mood to attach much importance to them.

  14. But don't you dare to ask me to go and hear that woman again!

  15. Why should that little bit of an insignificant woman have the honor of such a cordial greeting from the great man, while he did not even know of her existence?

  16. And here are we, eighteen hundred years afterward, sitting here in Bethany and talking of that same woman still!

  17. And, Marion Wilbur, I am not going to listen to another man or woman who has the least chance to fire words right at me--now mark my words.

  18. I'm not a primary class teacher, and not likely to be, but I am a woman, and gifted with the natural curiosity of that sex to know what a woman may have to say in so big a place as this.

  19. What is the sense in a woman talking in that way?

  20. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done be told as a memorial of her.

  21. In the first place they each selected and took possession of an entire seat, though the cars were filling rapidly, and many an anxious woman and heavily laden man looked reproachfully at them.

  22. There is nothing intrinsically absurd in the notion of a woman with a married daughter.

  23. Every defect that I had noted in the modern young woman is not less notable in the modern young man.

  24. The public is amused by the notion of a needy man put to double expense, and of a woman who has had no chance of fulfilling her destiny.

  25. The woman grabbed the lad by the foot and attempted to force him out, but he was not to be thrust into the hands of his pursuers thus easily, and after several attempts the woman desisted and ran screaming through the house.

  26. A woman has spoiled more than one well-laid scheme.

  27. With apprehension rippling down his spine, Dave Miller reached across the cash register and touched the woman on the cheek.

  28. It was just a feeler, but the woman didn't even answer to that.

  29. For all the result, the woman might have been a two-ton bronze statue.

  30. No woman minds that if she feels she is really helping her husband over a rough spot.

  31. And in the heart of the maid there grew and strengthened the desire and the will to be as that woman of her dream, whose beauty was as music under the moon, and in all reverence beloved of her troth-plight, Flame.

  32. And as he slept, he dreamed of that woman whose form was radiance, and whose eyes were stars.

  33. Thither she went, therefore, with Wur, the Old Gray Woman of Shadows, and leaned over the Pool in the wont of her old fashion.

  34. When first I saw in thine eyes that woman of thy dream, of whom thou hadst spoken, sorrow and humility were heavy upon me, for that I understood not why there should be aught in thine eyes but thy love, Roseheart.

  35. In response to their knock on the side door, a pleasant, tired-faced woman of mid-fifty came to admit them.

  36. Bless you, for letting me know and for helping Ed," the woman murmured gratefully as she climbed into the cab.

  37. Mrs. McClusky, a stout, red-faced woman with two small children clinging to her skirts, seemed stunned by the news.

  38. Suddenly a woman in the crowd pointed toward the photographer, shouting: "There he is!

  39. A woman who resembled your wife was driving the car.

  40. She rolled over to go to sleep again, then suddenly realized she was a working woman and leaped from bed.

  41. Within, in Humphrey's room, the bed was neatly made, clothes hung in a corner, shoes and slippers stood in a row.

  42. He wanted to know what you wanted him to do, Mildred.

  43. A woman came in; a stout woman dressed in black "alpaca" and wearing brass-rimmed spectacles.

  44. The thing for us to do would be to write out a advertisement of our own; tell what sort of woman we want, and then set back and wait for answers.

  45. She's as white as I am, and not bad-looking for a woman of her age.

  46. A feller that's been married, like you, ought to be able to talk ANY woman over.

  47. She gave it as her opinion that a man who loved a woman should be willing to go through fire and water to win her.

  48. Why, the woman at your house isn't black.

  49. That woman at the house is the real Marthy Snow all right, and we've got to go right up there and see her.

  50. A woman pitched into me once for givin' it to her husband when he was sick.

  51. Took off a bigger woman than you one time," said Captain Davis.

  52. It beats all what a woman can do when she's that kind of a woman.

  53. And go home and turn in they did, but not without protestation from the pair who had yet to meet the woman from Nantucket.

  54. You haven't got to marry the woman unless you want to, but you have got to help us see the thing through.

  55. Sir Philip Sidney thus translates this poem:-- Unto no body my woman saith shee had rather a wife be, Then to myself, not though Jove grew a suter of hers.

  56. Rufus, it is no wonder if yet no woman assenting Softly to thine embrace tender a delicate arm.

  57. Naso, if you show much, your company shows but a very Little; a man you show, Naso, a woman in one.

  58. Ne'er shall woman avouch herself so rightly beloved, Friend, as rightly thou art, Lesbia, lovely to me.

  59. Then aghast to see the lost limbs, the deform'd inutility, While still the gory dabble did anew the soil pollute, With a snowy palm the woman took affrayed a taborine.

  60. Let not a woman trust, since that first treason, a lover's Desperate oath, none hope true lover's promise is earnest.

  61. Elizabeth was an exceedingly able woman of business and was practically president of all the great joint-stock companies engaged in oversea trade.

  62. Why don't you make that woman of yours send you up decent cakes, my dear?

  63. I just did escape with my life and was nursed back to health by Tom Tit's granny, as good a woman as ever lived.

  64. He had heard all of this before from this little butterfly woman and he felt that he must impress upon her even more the importance of guarding her husband from all financial worries.

  65. He looked at the poor stricken little woman who seemed to have shrivelled up into a wizened little child who had just been punished.

  66. I think that mother is the kind of woman that men would fight to protect but when all is told that Cousin Lizzie is the kind who would go out and help fight if need be.

  67. When she took the daintily arranged breakfast tray to the cabin she was kept to fetch and carry and do a million foolish little nothings that an idle woman can always find to occupy other persons.

  68. I did mine with a broken fork but Mammy Susan says she knows an old woman who always did hers with her false teeth.

  69. Gwen was taken up with Aunt Mandy, the kind old mountain woman who had been so good to the little English orphan.

  70. If I had, I betcher I'd a been a pet pig an' some fool woman would er wanted to curl my tail and tie a bow 'round my neck.

  71. Two sore toes were tied up in dirty rags, having been ministered to by Aunt Mandy, the kind old mountain woman who bore the proud distinction in Bobby's mind of being the mother of Josh the boy and the owner of Josephus the mule.

  72. He could not but picture the little woman of the evening before hanging on to her husband, intent on protecting her dress and shrieking at every close flash of lightning or loud clap of thunder.

  73. No one would have been more astonished than Jeffry Tucker, the father of the Heavenly Twins, at the kind of reputation he had with a society woman of Mrs. Carter's standing.

  74. Tom Tit's mother was a very fine woman of an intelligence and character that was remarkable even in these mountains where intelligence and character are the rule rather than the exception.

  75. You also left me there, left me to such shame and sorrow as no man gives to the woman he loves.

  76. It had the same effect upon Ulfar that a badly dressed, untidy woman would have had.

  77. Her face was luminous with intellect and feeling, her manner that of a woman high-bred and familiar with the world.

  78. But your desertion has set wicked suspicions loose about Miss Anneys; and the woman they dare to think her, you shall make your wife.

  79. For her young eyes looked out with such eager interest, with glances so seeking, so without guile and misgiving, that their bright rays found a corner in his heart into which no woman had ever before penetrated.

  80. His mind had constantly pictured scenes of humiliation which he had condemned the woman he had once so tenderly loved to endure.

  81. Will told me that it was a poor woman who couldn't keep what she had won.

  82. Perhaps Sarah had exaggerated Ulfar's desperate condition; if so, she had done it consciously, for she knew that as soon as a woman is sure of her power she puts on an authority which commands it.

  83. He looked angrily at the handsome little woman urging him to do the thing he hated to do, and then taking the kerchief from his sister's face, he kissed her, and promised to leave Redware at dawn of day.

  84. Then she gave, in a clear, distinct voice, some order regarding a pearl necklace; and Ulfar turned like a flash, and looked at the woman who had spoken.

  85. Sarah, then, is in Richmond; and the woman who rides in her carriage is very likely in her house; but who can it be?

  86. I have often noticed that, however faithless a man may be, there comes at last one woman who avenges all the rest.

  87. He forgot his own treasures, and stood looking at the woman whose voice had called to him out of the past, had penetrated his heart like a bell struck sharply in its innermost room.

  88. You have been a slave to some woman all your life.

  89. We met a German woman who had seven or eight children with her, all under eight years of age,--two on her back, one under each arm and two following behind.

  90. The Indian woman did not escape his lecherous eye and if his base proposals were rejected, he had other means to resort to to enable him to accomplish his base desire.

  91. Among the incidents on the march before we arrived at Birch Coolie I might mention the finding of a wounded woman by the roadside.

  92. During our thirty-six hours' siege this poor woman remained in the wagon where she had been placed the first day, and spent her time in praying for our deliverance.

  93. She was a good woman and a good friend to the early settlers of Minnesota.

  94. Mrs. Mueller was a lovely woman of the heroic type.

  95. We saw three men and a woman on the road terribly hacked up.

  96. He lacked in neither, for he knew the foe he had to deal with, and if he had heeded the behests of the press and people, so far away, not a woman or child of the captives would have escaped.

  97. You would abuse your strength against a woman having no defence.

  98. Just at the door he saw a woman stand, who wept, and screamed, and wrung her trembling hands, while she her tresses tore in deep despair.

  99. George Bagby pays to the Virginia woman a tribute not less beautiful.

  100. Had Berkeley had one atom of gallantry or chivalry in his nature, he would have treated this unfortunate woman with courtesy.

  101. He ascribes to woman no place of superiority in society.

  102. There are women to like every kind, Simon, and almost any kind of a woman would like your kind, Simon, if you would only learn to be less ashamed of what should be no shame.

  103. Why, the loving a woman and she loving you, and you neither knowing why, nor maybe caring.

  104. A wonderful, lovely woman and a noble couple, I thought.

  105. The woman I love is waiting me, So drive the Lucy home to Gloucester.

  106. To offer the woman I have in mind anything less than a great love--it would be to cheat, Simon.

  107. I hate a field without a woman in it; don't you?

  108. She's done me up for every other woman living.

  109. She isn't a lady; but she's my lady; she's the woman I could be proud of.

  110. This is what a poor woman has to pay for custom!

  111. The task was difficult amid the threatening storm in the theatre, and cries of "Show the young woman her sister!

  112. I believe a woman 'd fall in love with her cheeks, they are so round and soft and kindly coloured.

  113. The keen ears of the woman had heard it mentioned.

  114. He would have thought nothing of such an act had he not been following this woman on whom his suspicions had been fixed.

  115. From the first he had accused this woman of being a spy.

  116. A strange new light was burning in the eyes of the woman he loved on the day he returned in safety.

  117. Death was the one figure now with which every man, woman and child was familiar.

  118. In answer to the rap of the old-fashioned brass knocker, a quaint little woman of forty opened the door and showed them into the parlor.

  119. Every woman from every window of every house in sight of the train waved a handkerchief.

  120. Dick knew that this woman could not recognize him personally.

  121. How any woman with true womanly instincts could tolerate such a spider was more than he could understand.

  122. Stevens lives in Washington in brazen defiance of conventionalities with a negro woman whom he separated from her husband thirty odd years ago.

  123. The thing I can't endure is that you, the woman to whom I have surrendered my soul, should judge me worthy of death.

  124. One woman had been killed and three wounded.

  125. Around the soap pot the negro woman had swept some woolen rags.

  126. A dainty little woman of eight, delicately trained in the ways of polite society, was shocked at the familiarity of a soldier who had dared to caress her.

  127. Socola followed the girl in silence into the little office of the hospital and found himself gasping with astonishment at the sight of the delicate woman who extended her hand in friendly greeting.

  128. It remained for a brave Southern woman to resent this insult to the Chieftain.

  129. Germaine wished to see her; but, at the first look, the sick woman uttered a loud cry, and hid her head under the counterpane.

  130. How can I help it when every woman I see for five minutes falls in love with me.

  131. If a man has a hundred invisible masters, a woman has five hundred.

  132. Never yet was woman known to be constant.

  133. Like many a passionate, high-souled young man, where he bestowed his heart he expected that heart to absorb and fill up the life and soul of the woman he loved.

  134. The old woman mumbled something under her breath, but appeared quite stupefied yet.

  135. I never can like a woman or a man whom I have once seen sticking pins through beetles, and butterflies, and bats; and I would as lief have a human skull for an ornament in a room as a stuffed skin of anything.

  136. He was not yet coward enough for that, though not Christian enough to perceive that this world was not made for one man and one woman only, but for all the children of Adam.

  137. Above all things, don't let any woman in.

  138. If the girl's good and pure enough to do this thing, my mother's the woman to appreciate it.

  139. If a woman was fortunate enough to lose her babe, she was often thrown into a cell till she chose to have another.

  140. Pratt sees his wife in every woman he meets," said his mother, toeing off her sock.

  141. Of the man and woman standing there face to face the woman's soul was the more guilty, it may be, in God's eyes, that minute.

  142. It's the great glory of our country that a woman can travel unprotected from one end to----Well.

  143. I chose a bilious, morbid woman to talk to you of, because American women are bilious and morbid.

  144. And she handed Grey a cup with a relaxing mouth, which showed, that, though she were a woman herself, capable of swallowing pills without jelly, she did not hope for as much from weaker human nature.

  145. The form of woman was never so mutilated and dishonored, the decencies of fetichism and savageism were never so outraged, as by these slaveholding idolaters of the Virgin and the Mother of God.

  146. Literally, the woman was dearer to him than his own soul.

  147. It is not the humorous side of her hero's character that a woman likes to contemplate; so give me credit for disinterestedness in the advice.


  148. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "woman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    woman born; woman called; woman came; woman could; woman ever; woman like; woman must; woman named; woman ought; woman shall; woman should; woman suffrage; woman who; woman whom; woman whose; woman will; woman would