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Example sentences for "female"

Lexicographically close words:
felts; felucca; feluccas; fem; femail; femaleness; females; feme; femina; feminine
  1. The bee-hunter complied in silence, casting curious glances upward at the woman while doing so, in order to ascertain what sort of a female Whiskey Centre could possibly have for a wife.

  2. This might be deemed tolerably explicit; yet was it not sufficiently so to satisfy female scruples, or female rights.

  3. Margery, in the gentle tones of female pity.

  4. Looking eagerly around in quest of the explanation, le Bourdon saw a female standing on a point of land that commanded a view of the river and its banks for a considerable distance, unequivocally watching the approach of the canoe.

  5. Why is that graceful female here With yon red hunter of the deer?

  6. As he struck in the bottom of the boat of Gershom, he heard his name uttered in a sweet female voice, and knew that Margery was living.

  7. This is altogether a failure, yet it is a good subject; nor has Mr Mulready been at all happy in the female beauty.

  8. By the impregnated female parasite, which penetrates the epidermis obliquely to the rete, depositing as it goes along ten or fifteen ova, forming a minute passage or burrow.

  9. In the center of the table, between the periwinkles, was another gift from Tío Ventolera, a terra cotta female head with a strange round tiara crowning her braided hair.

  10. The simple Pèp also laughed at these jests, which flattered both his rural pride and his masculine vanity, which was inclined to see in the female nothing but a sharer of his burdens.

  11. On reflection I see that the most completely rueful period couldn't after all greatly have prolonged itself; since the female eye last bent on us would have been that of Lavinia D.

  12. I assured him “that this whole globe of earth must be at least three times gone round before one of our better female Yahoos could get her breakfast, or a cup to put it in.

  13. I know of no more fascinating female figure from Rubens's brush; none which in its Flemish guise is so original, so wholly his.

  14. This is one of the painter's loveliest and best preserved female portraits.

  15. Is it not rather the history of a soul with its two elements, female and male?

  16. This effect of female linen on degenerates affected by sexual psychopathy is well known in mental therapeutics, and has often been described by Krafft-Ebing, Lombroso, and others.

  17. Binet declares that ‘it is the odours of the human body which are the causes responsible for a certain number of marriages contracted by clever men with female subordinates belonging to their households.

  18. Ibsen has had the daring to create a female Sancho, and in his temerity has come very near to Cervantes, whom no one has equalled.

  19. A female patient, whose skin was perfectly insensible on one half of her body, took no notice when, unseen by herself, she was pricked with a needle.

  20. Every book on suggestion gives illustrations of Charcot’s typical case: a hysterical female is sent into hypnotic sleep, and it is suggested to her that on awaking she is to stab one of the doctors present.

  21. The female members of the family were sent with them too.

  22. William, Prince of Orange, was descended on the female side from the English royal family, and was a Protestant.

  23. He was as indispensable to every female establishment as a pin, which article he greatly resembled, as he was tolerably brazen, not very sharp, and was seen sticking about the ladies on all occasions.

  24. I HAVE marvelled at nothing more, in Paris, than the rarity of female beauty.

  25. It is even less probable that a female was upon such a wreck, and survived the catastrophe, to constitute an American Eve.

  26. Or what more glorious to the fancy that would clothe the delicacy of the female character in the gorgeous robes of heroic majesty, than Sforza's description of the fair Giovanna: 'Gods!

  27. Uncle James has just passed, with his female folk," said young Jolyon.

  28. She had married off her three daughters in a way that people said was beyond their deserts, for they had the professional plainness only to be found, as a rule, among the female kind of the more legal callings.

  29. Holly's in--if you could put up with a female relation, she'd show you round.

  30. Here, in the luncheon interval, were all species of female and one species of male hat, protecting the multiple types of face associated with "the classes.

  31. We were once watched anxiously by a nervous female head waiter who at last mustered up courage enough to inform me that guests were not allowed to eat without coats.

  32. The female children they put in skin-tight blue overalls.

  33. Male and female they must be, "Thou knowest the needful rites.

  34. Following on the veiled Bride Fifty female slaves attend In costly robes that gleam With interwoven gold, And sparkle far with gems.

  35. It is singular that at the time when these opinions prevailed universally, golden locks should enter into almost every description of female beauty.

  36. For the space of two or three months after any person is interred, the female relations go once a week to weep over the grave and perform their parentalia upon it.

  37. On the one hand, a certain form of incontinence was not associated either in the male or female mind with the presence of a degraded class, while, on the other hand, the natural appetites were to a limited extent gratified.

  38. The offending female stood in the broad aisle beside the partner of her guilt.

  39. The offending female in this case seems to have been what is known as a woman of bad or abandoned character; the man's relations with her are assumed as notorious.

  40. The children must be dear little creatures," the toothy female gushed.

  41. Natives can be very, very shrewd," a stout female commented, clutching her handbag tightly.

  42. Every where, he insists, examples of female nobility and strength of character are found linked with the destinies of kings who have earned for themselves no better titles than those of the faineant and the simple.

  43. In the female portion of the assembly there was not so much novelty.

  44. Englishman," could hardly be expected to be free from the consequences of female partiality at the court of Charles II.

  45. I further promise that I will not debauch any female related to a companion of this degree, either by blood or marriage, knowing her to be such, under penalty of being crushed under the ruins of a subterraneous temple.

  46. The box in the poor man's yard had been tended by the poor man's great-grand female relatives.

  47. But if there was one thing in the world that I had formed no conclusions upon at the age of six it was female loveliness.

  48. It was then that a panting, female voice was raised behind him.

  49. The bell of the neighboring church struck twelve, the hall doors slowly opened, and there entered a superb colossal female form, reverentially accompanied by the members and hangers-on of the legal faculty.

  50. He was so alarmed that he sent the female part of his family on shore for safety, and requested a reinforcement of marines.

  51. The female hides herself in the body: the male buries her alive and the dead creature with her.

  52. The female beetle lays in each body about as many eggs as she thinks it will support.

  53. We are trebly of the female line at Gledcliffe; still, I am no doubt more or less Scotch by domicile.

  54. Till very lately, it was universally believed that the female scarab laid an egg in some of the balls, and that the young grubs hatched within such food-stocks and began at once to devour them.

  55. When they first find it, the male hovers above it like an eagle, circling round and round, so as to point it out to his mate; the female flies straight to it, and buries herself without delay in the rich banquet.

  56. But there was the female voice, there was the secret nightly rendezvous in the turret chamber--how could such facts admit of an innocent interpretation?

  57. Is the shorter female a servant caught in the act of trying on her mistress's best cap?

  58. He was consequently surprised and somewhat alarmed at seeing a shadowy female figure hovering before it.

  59. So he intimated to the meenester his suspicions of grievous laxity amang the female flock, and of the necessity of a special sermon on the Seventh Command.

  60. I had sufficient curiosity to open the drawers: there were a few odds and ends of female dress, and two letters tied round with a narrow ribbon of faded yellow.

  61. And in that town of cotton bales and other adjuncts to female beauty we made the acquaintance of drinks invented by the Creoles during the period of Louey Cans, in which they are still served at the side doors.

  62. A female voice starts up reading headlines of murders, accidents and other political casualities.

  63. About the only job left that a woman can beat a man in is female impersonator in vaudeville.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "female" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    female; feminine; girl; girlish; her; kittenish; ladylike; maidenly; matronly; petticoat; she; womanish; womanly


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    female beauty; female child; female descent; female education; female figure; female form; female infanticide; female labor; female servant; female slave; female slaves; female suffrage; female taken; female under; females reach military age