females

plural of female

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of females Iowa Democratic Senate nominee Josh Turek, a two-time Paralympic gold medalist in wheelchair basketball, has publicly opposed male athletes competing against females. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 The males die after a hookup; the females return to Lake Erie to lay their eggs. — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2026 As the number of distractor calls increased, females got worse at picking the attractive call, took longer to decide, and were more likely to defer choosing within the 10-minute window altogether. — Claire Therese Hemingway, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026 Because of these characteristic trails, apple maggots are also known as railroad worms (the name is more commonly applied to the larvae and wormlike adult females of Phrixothrix beetles). — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026 The bears, which are normally solitary creatures, can be picky when choosing mates, and females are only in heat for one to three days each year. — Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2026 The victims include five 18-year-old males, five 17-year-old males and two 18-year-old females. — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026 One 19-year-old male, four 18-year-old males, five 17-year-old males and two 18-year-old females were treated for injuries. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026 Sea spiders breathe through the skin, and females produce eggs along their limbs that eventually extrude through specialized pores. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for females
Noun
  • The next day, Gina is excited to bring the ladies to a Japanese temple, based on how transformative her prior experience at a temple in Bali was.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The young ladies in the show are calling each other out and keeping each other accountable.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 3 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The archaic legal restrictions restricting same-sex couples or unmarried women, for example, are acknowledged and adhered to, rather than being openly challenged or criticized.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026
  • At Lumalia Emmy Armstrong’s Holy Rage Retreats in the Oregon woods near Portland, small groups of women gather among the trees, expressing themselves through sound and movement.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026

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“Females.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/females. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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