Example Sentences

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“I think Plath here is attempting to feminise and modify some biblical stories, as well as Dante’s Divine Comedy, by having Mary Ventura enact a journey by modern transport into the underworld,” Steinberg said.

From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2018

Her parents were not the first to feminise the name Nigel by adding the "la" suffix but their daughter is arguably the most famous proponent of such nomenclature.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2018

Is it really empowering to simply feminise the action-film grunt?

From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2017

But others are cross that the Treasury has reneged on a promise to feminise the $10 bill, a note long fronted by Alexander Hamilton, the founding father and current Broadway mega-star.

From Economist • Apr. 21, 2016

Photograph: Ron Galella/WireImage Subsequently, organised crime became the most recurrent Collins theme apart from Beverly Hills infidelity, although, characteristically, the novelist set out to feminise the mob novel.

From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2015