MANHOOD in a Sentence

Learn MANHOOD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

51 example sentences for MANHOOD, such as:

1. His son has grown into manhood.
2. It seemed they were fighting to prove their manhood.
3. When a boy reaches manhood, he should behave like a man.
4. Each culture had a special ritual to initiate boys into manhood.
5. The story is seen through the eyes of a boy on the verge of manhood.

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 Meanings and Examples of MANHOOD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
manhood
 n.  the status of being a man
 n.  the quality of being human
Classic Sentence: (43 in 3 pages)
1  His manhood was humbled by the part he was compelled to play and by the thought of what Mattie must think of him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  From the two he loved best, Charles had received no toughening influences, learned nothing of harshness or reality, and the home in which he grew to manhood was as soft as a bird's nest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  They have taken the flower of our manhood and the laughter of our young women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
4  Her white citizens are wedded to any method however revolting, any measure however extreme, for the subjugation of the young manhood of the race.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VI
5  Nothing since I have been a reading man has so impressed me with the decay of manhood among the people of Tennessee as the dastardly submission to the mob reign.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VI
6  Nothing, absolutely nothing, is to be gained by a further sacrifice of manhood and self-respect.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
7  In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
8  The expanded chest, full formed limbs, and grave countenance of this warrior, would denote that he had reached the vigor of his days, though no symptoms of decay appeared to have yet weakened his manhood.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
9  Throwing his leg over the saddle, he dismounted, with a determination to advance and seize his treacherous companion, trusting the result to his own manhood.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
10  As the rights of hospitality were, however, considered sacred among them, this little departure from the dignity of manhood excited no audible comment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
11  'Twould be, indeed, a bloody path for such tender feet to wade in," returned the equally reluctant scout; "but I thought it befitting my manhood to name it.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
12  Heyward was also nigh, supporting himself against a tree, and endeavoring to keep down those sudden risings of sorrow that it required his utmost manhood to subdue.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33
13  It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  I was fast approaching manhood, and year after year had passed, and I was still a slave.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  I talked to them of our want of manhood, if we submitted to our enslavement without at least one noble effort to be free.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence:
1  Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
2  Sincerity, a deep genuine, heart-felt sincerity, is a trait of true and noble manhood.
3  When a boy reaches manhood, he should behave like a man.
4  The story is seen through the eyes of a boy on the verge of manhood.
5  He was an active if conventional soldier and citizen; and from early manhood he wrote plays.
6  Each culture had a special ritual to initiate boys into manhood.
7  It seemed they were fighting to prove their manhood.
8  His son has grown into manhood.