Use "womenfolk" in a sentence
womenfolk example sentences
womenfolk
1. Catwhiskers were sat talking out of hearing of the womenfolk
2. “To we Hebrews, bathing is a very private affair – the menfolk bathe separately from the womenfolk
3. Like the womenfolk, the men also loved to get a glimpse of the queen – for different reasons
4. The farmers are a conservative lot, not forceful like the men in the city, but there is a demand for their womenfolk to raise the children for farmhands and be wives and mothers
5. which you mentioned, although if your stories of their womenfolk are true, then it is hardly
6. I understand that you truly respect us womenfolk and that you have done well in cleaning up your act on that score, but you need to continue keeping vigil over your attitude and language
7. Black, white and other color womenfolk were still owned outright for a good long time afterward
8. Papa was in great splendor that day, so obviously superior, in the universatility of his knowledge; to either of us damp womenfolk
9. He sets about his reply quickly: he demands that a quarter of the womenfolk are sent over the Channel, so that they can perform domestic duties
10. He also possessed a philosophic bent, to the great delight of his grandfather, who used to hold Socratic conversations with him, in which the precocious pupil occasionally posed his teacher, to the undisguised satisfaction of the womenfolk
11. He had not the faintest knowledge what it really was, but he would never have sunk so low as to confess that to his womenfolk
12. But by and by, as said, this evening after sundown, the wind sitting in the west, biggish swollen clouds to be seen as the night increased and the weatherwise poring up at them and some sheet lightnings at first and after, past ten of the clock, one great stroke with a long thunder and in a brace of shakes all scamper pellmell within door for the smoking shower, the men making shelter for their straws with a clout or kerchief, womenfolk skipping off with kirtles catched up soon as the pour came
13. I can’t be harangued by womenfolk in public
14. People in the industrialised West liked to accuse other cultures of oppressing their womenfolk, but Western society could be just as oppressive
15. A hissing from among the womenfolk back in the shadow
16. One of the womenfolk held her and faded out the sobbing into jerked breathing and a fluttering of her lips in butterfly quickness as the breath stroked over them, afraid
17. Ivan and his son, seeing that their womenfolk were being badly used, jumped into the midst of the fray, and a fearful fight followed
18. ” Yet through all this chopping and changing and pretence (as I now conceive) there may have run in me a certain vein of talent, since music sometimes affected me even to tears, and things which particularly pleased me I could strum on the piano afterwards (in a certain fashion) without the score; so that, had any one taught me at that period to look upon music as an end, a grace, in itself, and not merely as a means for pleasing womenfolk with the velocity and pseudo-sentiment of one’s playing, I might possibly have become a passable musician
