How to Use manhood in a Sentence

manhood

noun
  • He took the comment as a challenge to his manhood.
  • He grew from boyhood to manhood in a small southern town.
  • For some sound junkies, the size of the stereo and the girth of the speakers are the measures of manhood.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1997
  • On the cusp of manhood, with all the innocence of a child and the body hair of an adult.
    — Dahlia Gallin Ramirez, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The goal of the wrestling work, said the artist, was to loosen definitions of manhood.
    — Meredith Mendelsohn, New York Times, 22 June 2018
  • In the 1990s, a vandal chopped off the Ranch Club stallion’s, um, manhood.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In the 1990s, a vandal chopped off the Ranch Club stallion’s, um, manhood.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 2 Jan. 2025
  • My pre-teen self just shuddered at the thought of JT’s manhood.
    — refinery29.com, 30 June 2018
  • The Fab Five used their skills to direct the boys toward manhood.
    — Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • And Trump started the rally by talking about the size of Palmer's manhood.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
  • There are 165 days until the election, and the Democrats have a manhood problem — one a pill won’t fix.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
  • In his place was a vision of American manhood that would have been at home in the 1950s.
    — Vulture, 3 Aug. 2022
  • It’s the tenuity of manhood that drives men to seek ways to prove their masculine bona fides.
    — Parker Molloy, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Trump as having a micro penis, as if that were the true test of manhood.
    — Siobhan McGuirk, Teen Vogue, 18 Aug. 2017
  • These men, between ages 18 and 65, have been yoked to the stereotypes of manhood: tough, stoic, brutish.
    — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Given a choice between a mask and a cup, a catcher would say a prayer for his manhood and pull the mask over his head.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 1 July 2020
  • About midway through the Vine, Louis seems to notice his untamed manhood and ... jumps up and down even more!
    — Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 22 Apr. 2015
  • Then came the 6:25 mark of the fourth quarter against the Pistons, the game very much in doubt, and Wiseman’s biggest-yet step into manhood.
    — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Holland’s Todd Hewitt, orphaned as a baby and on the cusp of manhood, is the youngest male in the town and bears both the hope and burden that comes with that.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Holland’s Todd Hewitt, orphaned as a baby and on the cusp of manhood, is the youngest male in the town and bears both the hope and burden that comes with that.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Holland’s Todd Hewitt, orphaned as a baby and on the cusp of manhood, is the youngest male in the town and bears both the hope and burden that comes with that.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Holland’s Todd Hewitt, orphaned as a baby and on the cusp of manhood, is the youngest male in the town and bears both the hope and burden that comes with that.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Much of the film’s comedy hinges on the trio trying to keep their manhood (and manliness) in check.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 4 May 2023
  • The icy dip was a brazen display of manhood and an Orthodox Christian ritual to mark the Feast of the Epiphany.
    — Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Pit bulls are supposed to be some kind of expression of the owner's manhood.
    — Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The years during which Albinati comes of age are years of epochal change for Italy, for Catholicism, for ideals of manhood.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Eric sees Claire, in a weird way, as his ticket to adulthood and real love and manhood.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The Old School notions of manhood, respect etc don’t work anymore.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 31 July 2019
  • The Old School notions of manhood, respect etc don’t work anymore.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 31 July 2019
  • But there’s nothing truly masculine about these brutish low-lifes who oppose everything that makes for responsible manhood.
    — The Editors, National Review, 3 Mar. 2025

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