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Recent Examples of womanly Jean Jinho Kim distills womanly form to pairs of boots stylized from metal pipes, powder-coated for an industrial sheen. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 June 2024 Fellow Ukrainians, male and female, regularly accuse them of being women or womanly in social media posts and to their faces. Olga Oliker, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2022 Famous as a prison reformer and Quaker at the turn of the 19th century, Fry is another who, like Nightingale, has been presented as the epitome of womanly virtues. Sarah Gristwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024 This homage to the womanly silhouette—those were certainly child bearing hips, after all—was further characterized by a small group of models who wore elegantly sheer gowns that fully exposed their bodies underneath, including their mons pubis, covered in hair. Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2024 See all Example Sentences for womanly 

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“Womanly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/womanly. Accessed 12 Dec. 2024.

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