Example Sentences

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Just like those Frenchwomen watching the guillotine come down, I thought, quickening my pace until I was halted by the city’s notorious vandalism.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2020

With her critique of “Parisienne,” Pfeiffer is doing something close to the opposite: rejecting a label by which Frenchwomen have been homogenized and mainstreamed beyond recognition.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 19, 2019

The film historian David Shipman noted those qualities when he wrote, “It is always an unpleasant surprise to all young men when they first go to France that all Frenchwomen are not like Danielle Darrieux.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2017

At any given time, 80% of Frenchwomen are thought to be on a diet.

From The Guardian • Sep. 10, 2017

There were many Polish civilians here and a few Frenchwomen as well.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel