How to Use gender in a Sentence

gender

noun
  • Some languages do not use genders.
  • In Spanish, the adjective and noun must agree in number and gender.
  • Police did not share the gender or the name of the child.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The gender and name of the child has not been released.
    Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 31 July 2023
  • The age and gender of the victim has not been released.
    Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The name, gender and birth date of the child haven’t been revealed.
    Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 24 Feb. 2022
  • How do race and gender play a role in the public response to her body?
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
  • The results stayed the same regardless of age and gender.
    Josh Magness, miamiherald, 25 June 2018
  • The gender and age of the second suspect has not been released.
    Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post, 16 Aug. 2019
  • The myth of the gender-transcendent workplace was just that.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Crowson did not disclose a name or the gender of the suspect.
    Arkansas Online, 24 Dec. 2019
  • Just a quick word from you on that, Catherine, on the gender?
    ABC News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • But she wasn't allowed to travel to space due to her gender.
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 25 Jan. 2023
  • What vice is desirable on the other side of the gender divide?
    Amy Joyce, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • People are a lot more anxious across age groups and across gender.
    Sanaya Chandar, Quartz India, 11 Feb. 2020
  • So tweeted the greatest athlete in the world, in any sport, of any gender.
    Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 9 July 2018
  • Of course, people of all sexes and genders can use strap-ons.
    Sophie Saint Thomas, SELF, 2 Mar. 2019
  • Both that debate and one over gender have raised questions about free speech in the county.
    Sam Dorman, Fox News, 23 June 2021
  • Police did not release their ages or give a gender for the fourth person.
    Carlie Wells, NOLA.com, 23 Nov. 2020
  • As a father of two girls, gender equality is very close to me.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Postwar gender roles didn’t leave a lot of breathing room.
    Madeline Leung Coleman, The Atlantic, 29 Nov. 2020
  • But that doesn’t explain the yawning and growing gender gap.
    Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 29 June 2018
  • Taking on the male gender norm from a social standpoint was also a large task for me.
    Bari Glassman, Men's Health, 5 Feb. 2023
  • The gender of her unborn child was a mystery to everyone, though the singer had an idea.
    Billboard Staff, Billboard, 12 July 2018
  • Both works also toyed with gender in much the same way Kahlo herself did.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2023
  • During that decade, the gender pay gap closed by about one percentage point a year.
    Cassie Werber, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2023
  • But people’s salaries were set (by the state) in a gender-blind manner.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 13 Nov. 2021
  • There's a vast gender gap in vote preferences, and it's grown sharply.
    Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 Nov. 2022
  • Almost even more than our gender issue did, that did the year before.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 6 July 2018
  • Not my preferred kind of partner, not my gender, not my kinks.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 26 June 2020

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