How to Use femme fatale in a Sentence

femme fatale

noun

• Even at 19, she was seen as a femme fatale.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025
• There is a femme fatale feel with lingerie details.
  — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2025
• And like any good femme fatale, Maddy is given savvy at the expense of moral scruple.
  — The Editors, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
• And like any good femme fatale, Maddy is given savvy at the expense of moral scruples.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
• Those clawlike acrylics of last season gave way to an entire vampy, gothy, witchy, femme fatale through-line on the runways.
  — Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2026
• The actress’ attire, slinky and skin-forward, harkens back to the sensual stylings of the femme fatale.
  — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2025
• All as much fans of soft-core nineties femme fatale films as experimental cinema.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
• Speaking of Li Jun Li, both of you play off each other so well as femme fatale and hardboiled detective.
  — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 11 June 2026
• The femme fatale glamour that swept the New York presentations took a red-eye to Italy and got walking.
  — Arden Fanning Andrews, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2026
• Cardellini is equally plausible as a femme fatale and a woman who likely has an active Nextdoor profile.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Mar. 2026
• In an echo of House of Cards, Mara’s Nancy is a femme fatale—impetuous, sexy, haunted.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 18 Mar. 2026
• The obstinate femme fatale has been criticized by some viewers for abandoning her family.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026
• The glaringly obvious evildoer and patently secretive femme fatale are guilty the whole time.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
• Set in pre-war fascist Italy, the production stars soprano Elena Stikhina in the role of the young femme fatale.
  — Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
• In theory, the femme fatale (Kathleen Turner) could now just get a divorce, under no-fault laws, and live comfortably.
  — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• The beautiful and captivating femme fatale Cat Hardy, played by Li Jun Li.
  — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 30 May 2026
• Making quite the dynamic entrance as sultry femme fatale Beth is Pamela Anderson.
  — Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 13 Nov. 2025
• Making quite the dynamic entrance as sultry femme fatale Beth is Pamela Anderson.
  — Jen Juneau, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• This isn’t to suggest that Dorothy was some secret femme fatale mastermind, but rather a real woman living in the real world, adjusting and adapting as necessary.
  — Lili Anolik, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 2026
• In Season 2, expect Pine to confront those feelings head-on, thanks to another likeminded arms dealer and alluring femme fatale who put him in the crosshairs again.
  — Jake Kring-Schreifels, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
• In this passionate drama, Bardot consolidated her image as a femme fatale and rebellious woman.
  — Bianca Novembre, Vanity Fair, 28 Dec. 2025
• Sandoval is both behind and in front of the camera in Moonglow, playing a scheming if ultimately tenderhearted femme fatale with the classic film noir name of Dahlia.
  — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
• Anderson stars opposite Neeson as femme fatale Beth Davenport.
  — Bailey Richards, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• From femme fatale to romantic leading lady, Margot Robbie finally got a chance to work with Colin Farrell.
  — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 22 Aug. 2025
• Inside the fairgrounds she’s known as Venus Electrificata, a flapper femme fatale perched atop a low-voltage platform, ready to deliver a mild shock to any punter willing to spend a few francs for a kiss.
  — Ben Croll, IndieWire, 12 May 2026
• This slick femme fatale thriller from director Rebecca Thomas finds DeHaan in fine form and and features a screenplay from Daniel Casey that’s lined with surprises.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2026
• Namasenda appeared on the cover of 2021’s Unlimited Ammo as a femme fatale straight out of The Matrix, a leather catsuit clinging to her body.
  — Walden Green, Pitchfork, 8 May 2026
• The film lures us into a mystery that’s a knowing gloss on all those old detective movies, as Joe is hired by Sharon Cobbs (Vicky Krieps), a platinum-blonde femme fatale whose older tycoon husband was just murdered.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 May 2026
• With Lee’s custom Dior look, Anderson marries sinuous lines and sensuality with a mysterious aura quintessential to the modern femme fatale archetype.
  — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2025
• Neither a film noir femme fatale nor a jealous housewife, Sarah Trafford (Ruth Wilson) has come to Oxford Investigations for help in solving a mystery that has little to do with her own life.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 30 Oct. 2025