FEMININE in a Sentence

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67 example sentences for FEMININE, such as:

1. Jewelry and lace are mostly feminine belongings.
2. With his long dark eyelashes, he looked almost feminine.
3. Whenever he came to town, there was a feminine fluttering.
4. This wasn't the soft, sweet, feminine person he had taken to wife.
5. A characteristic of the feminine psyche is to seek approval from others.

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 Meanings and Examples of FEMININE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
feminine
 a.  (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable
 a.  of grammatical gender
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  Perhaps if she changed her tactics-- But she felt that if Ashley succumbed to premeditated feminine tricks, she could never respect him as she now did.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  And the civilization of which she was a part would have been unbelieving too, for at no time, before or since, had so low a premium been placed on feminine naturalness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  The house seemed bursting with the crowd, and a ceaseless babble of talking and laughter and giggles and shrill feminine squeaks and screams rose and fell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Too wide across the cheek bones, too pointed at the chin, it was a sweet, timid face but a plain face, and she had no feminine tricks of allure to make observers forget its plainness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  He had never once crossed the borders of friendliness with her and, when she thought of this fresh anger rose, the anger of hurt pride and feminine vanity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  Honey was a fool, a silly, a simpleton about men, but she had a feminine instinct about other women that Scarlett had underestimated.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Uncle Henry was a short, pot-bellied, irascible old gentleman with a pink face, a shock of long silver hair and an utter lack of patience with feminine timidities and vaporings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  It was this happy feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  Whenever he came to town, there was a feminine fluttering.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  "Why--" began Uncle Henry, irritated at the feminine mind which thought only of personal things when broad issues were involved.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  Gerald, Will and Ashley sat about the room smoking, smiling at the feminine tumult.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
12  This wasn't the soft, sweet, feminine person he had taken to wife.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  In the brief period of the courtship, he thought he had never known a woman more attractively feminine in her reactions to life, ignorant, timid and helpless.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  But no matter what devices these ladies employed in order to get their own way, they were always feminine devices.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  After the baby came, he knew she would be the same sweet, feminine girl he had courted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  There are three genders in German: masculine, feminine and neuter.
2  Jewelry and lace are mostly feminine belongings.
3  With his long dark eyelashes, he looked almost feminine.
4  And yet woman is coerced through submission to the Symbolic order to abandon feminine desire and a peculiarly feminine relation to origins.
5  A characteristic of the feminine psyche is to seek approval from others.