How to Use woman in a Sentence

woman

noun
Definition of womannext
Synonyms for womannext
  • The store sells shoes for both men and women.
  • She is a grown woman.
  • She grew up to become a confident and beautiful woman.
  • There in the bushes, where the man had just been, was the body of a young woman.
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Two and a half times as many women are on the list as men.
    — Steven Stolman, Town & Country, 21 Mar. 2019
  • The force of the impact killed the man and a woman in the passenger seat.
    — Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 25 June 2020
  • When deputies arrived, the woman was no longer in the area.
    — Nour Rahal, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2021
  • The day he was sentenced, Scott clung to the woman’s words.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 12 June 2022
  • Roberts is the first Black woman to ever host the show.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 19 July 2021
  • The show must go on – but not with the woman it’s named after.
    — al, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The woman died at the scene while the driver fled, police said.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Police found the woman, who is in her mid 20s, near the back door.
    — Jeff Piorkowski/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 8 May 2018
  • There was a trans woman killed here a few blocks [away].
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 3 Feb. 2018
  • There was a young woman, barely alive, next to the boy.
    — Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The gender pay gap is alive and well in women’s sports.
    — Condé Nast, SELF, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The officer talked to the woman, who was drunk and smelled like booze.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 14 June 2022
  • Police have not said if the woman was the target of the shooting.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2021
  • That’s the face and the charisma of a man who — other men want to be like that, women want to be with him.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Then, the man allegedly approached the woman and tried to push her out of the chair.
    — Claire Law, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • Police said the other man and woman were checked by medics at the scene.
    — Jen Guadarrama, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Sep. 2022
  • One woman who heard the crash from her apartment said her house shook as the car passed by.
    — Aicha El Hammar Castano, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2022
  • But how many of those could hold a woman and her five children?
    — Alden Woods, azcentral, 2 July 2017
  • Could the woman he's been searching for all this time live right next door?
    — Dory Jackson, PEOPLE.com, 13 Oct. 2021
  • And some of the things are sort of obvious that have to do with being a woman.
    — ABC News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • There was a woman who walks into one of our stores with her child.
    — Nicole Norfleet, Star Tribune, 7 May 2021
  • That there can be the woman that can try to take over everything and will do it.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2022
  • And her picture of being a woman in that world is drawn in fire.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2023
  • All of the women had been on the department for fewer than four years.
    — kansascity, 26 Dec. 2017
  • The case is a class action suit, brought by several current and former inmates at a women’s prison, against the private contractor that ran the place and allowed abuse to run rampant.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The wig is both required for a married woman’s modesty and a serious financial investment.
    — Talia Lavin, Curbed, 7 Nov. 2024

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