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How to use epicene in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word epicene? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
There are also putti riding dolphins and angels with fluttering tunics pressing against their epicene bodies.
He was also a eunuch of such beauty that the sultan fell for his epicene handsomeness and appointed him his senior commander.
The picture seems driven, at least partly, by an impulse to contradict the more epicene tendencies of this country's art-house filmmaking.
In the haunting, even epicene strains of the suite's final entry in E flat minor, the high beams of his immaturity shine so bright as to burn a hole in its very fabric.
You would think that veneration so exquisite, verging on the epicene, indicates an object of, well, recherché taste.
Perhaps it augurs a return to the epicene male fashion of Genji's time.
Among my favorites are the triumphant warrior Fortinbras represented by a pair of barefoot drips in angel costume, he blond and epicene, she a redheaded virago.
In a dystopian society in the future, a group of wealthy, epicene overlords — authoritarians with violet hair and the vicious manners of French courtiers — threaten and control an impoverished population.
The courtiers were an effete and in some cases epicene crew.
A lot of rather etiolated, epicene, middle-class, male intellectuals have discovered a new authenticity when they come to identify themselves as football fans.
Looking back I can see that there was a rich seam amongst the 'e's with effrontery, effete, epicene, effulgence and grummet all featuring in one section.
Examples from Classical Literature
But a liberal-minded public grew more and more in favor of epicene colleges.
Sentiment is the ultima ratio feminarum, and of men whose natures are of the epicene gender.
In English grammar there are no true epicene nouns, but the term is sometimes used instead of common gender.
He was a great contrast to the epicene bird-like creature who had lorded it over the civic fortunes of Valladolid.
Francis attracted plenty of bets but the royals surely would have flinched from an epicene name.
Lewis is again Malvolio, but a strutting, epicene version, rather than the earnest, humorless striver he gave us before.
He looked away, for that epicene tenderness of hers was too harrowing.
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