FEMALE in a Sentence

Learn FEMALE 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.
174 example sentences for FEMALE, such as:
1. She tried out for the female lead.
2. The female sits on the eggs until they hatch.
3. The female digs a pit in which to lay the eggs.
4. They teed off the program with a female chorus.
5. The female worker has been employed for five months.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of FEMALE
female
 a.  being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces fertilizable gametes (ova) from which offspring develop
 n.  a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies
Classic Sentence: (135 in 10 pages)
1  No argument or persuasion could ever induce him to set up a female establishment after the manner of his companions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
2  The supply of adult women was running short, and polygamy without a female population on which to draw was a barren doctrine indeed.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
3  Even that unlucky female, Mrs. Sparsit, fallen from her pinnacle of exultation into the Slough of Despond, was not in so bad a plight as that remarkable man and self-made Humbug, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
4  A side-door at the upper end of the hall now opened behind the banquet table, and Rowena, followed by four female attendants, entered the apartment.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  In a low-arched and dusky passage, by which he endeavoured to work his way to the hall of the castle, he was interrupted by a female form.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  She performed her task with a graceful and dignified simplicity and modesty, which might, even in more civilized days, have served to redeem it from whatever might seem repugnant to female delicacy.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  But the housekeeper had served Sir Geoffrey for many years, and the dried-up, elderly, superlatively correct female you could hardly call her a parlour-maid, or even a woman.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  Connie disliked her; the spoilt, false little female.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
9  That was her own private affair, and the one point on which, in her own queer, female way, she was serious to the bottom of her soul.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
10  She had been supposed to have rather a good figure, but now she was out of fashion: a little too female, not enough like an adolescent boy.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
11  Her thighs, too, they used to look so quick and glimpsy in their female roundness, somehow they too were going flat, slack, meaningless.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  Mrs Bolton also kept a cherishing eye on Connie, feeling she must extend to her her female and professional protection.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
13  He dreaded her will, her female will, and her modern female insistency.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  She had wakened the sleeping dogs of old voracious anger in him, anger against the self-willed female.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
15  Suddenly, with all the force of her female instinct, she was shoving him off.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Example Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  Lineages of descent from a female ancestor are thus prime substructures composing a macaque troop.
2  The female sits on the eggs until they hatch.
3  The female worker has been employed for five months.
4  The male bird performs a sort of mating dance before copulating with the female.
5  The female bird incubates the eggs for about sixteen days while the male brings food.
6  The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.
7  The contract gives a female executive maternity leave rights.
8  Only an expert would know the difference between the male and the female.
9  Kelly couldn't focus his eyes well enough to tell if the figure was male or female.
10  The female digs a pit in which to lay the eggs.
11  She tried out for the female lead.
12  The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
13  Bruce Willis plays a lippy cop battling it out with a female partner.
14  They teed off the program with a female chorus.
15  The female changes colour during the breeding season.