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How to use manly in a sentence

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While fencing is usually thought of as a manly sport, the women of the University of Victoria fencing club have a much different perspective.
Most fathers try to instill a sense of the manly arts in their sons through athletics.
Carne asada is the centrepiece of two of the very manly Salvadorian house specialties.
Rudy G is more than just a manly man filled with macho manliness and male machismo.
I would run in place, taking special care to thrust my knees at least chest-high while swinging my arms in a pleasingly manly fashion.
Anyone acquainted with the world of the scratch DJ will understand that it is manly in the way that Hobbyland is manly.
Martinez saves manly fist bumps for the coaches, including manager Eric Wedge.
It should be the sort of manly thing I get my man to do, but he leaves computers to me.
I mean, they're not very manly, are they, all those scented essential oils, moisturising creams and skin toners?
Do you actually feel more manly or powerful after belittling a fellow human?
To clarify, I meant that, in associating the word man with these manly traits, maybe we implicitly exclude women.
Hey, it even sports a manly name, since calling it a man-bag just doesn't sound right.
Is it really going to be the manly thing to be standing on the subway reading about how to diaper your baby?
As long as they don't have to act manly and pretend not to be afraid of insects.
He carries on conversations with everybody, tools in hand, one eye always on the manly meats sizzling under his command.
By the antebellum decades, westward migration had become a symbol of manly courage and adventure.
Imagine a thin moody moustache is slithering across my upper lip rather than the manly unkemptness that I call my beard.
Why is it a manly diversion to bully others whereas sexual deviation is unmanly and deserving of moral and criminal censure?
What is the carefully mussed actor trying to work out exactly, sulking from exotic blonde embrace to manly clasp?
They would cultivate a military bearing, trying to take a disciplinary flogging with manly indifference, and giving a smart salute after it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Whereas the possession of Mrs. Schomberg was no incitement to a display of manly virtues.
One manly voice trolled a jovial drinking song, to which two others occasionally bore a bui'den.
His presence and air had the appearance of frankness, ingenuousness, and manly confidence.
His mind was fraught with independence, magnanimity, and every manly virtue.
His open, manly and characterful face bore at the chin a thick tuft of brown beard, leaving his cheeks and lips clean shaven.
Olympius had risen from his place as symposiarch and was leaning against a door-post awaiting death with manly composure.
Her cutaway coat was buttoned tightly over a manly bosom, and her waist was not waspish.
His manly form lay stretched upon the carpet, while his features were distorted and purpled from the agony of the convulsions.
He possessed great personal strength, was expert in all manly exercises, and shone especially at the jousts and the manege.
In what connection can manly be used where manful could not be substituted?
Therefore, after a moment's consideration, he spoke up, with a firm and manly voice.
This appeal to manly protection was received by Stevie with his usual docility.
He was young, well-spoken, witty, and skilled in all martial and manly exercises.
After these, excellent Homer and Tyrtaeus animated the manly mind to martial achievements with their verses.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone!
Whether this change conduces to fair, manly, unbought wrestling, is a matter of grave doubt.
The Dorian was in a minor scale, and was considered to be manly and vigorous.
Charles saw that the idea of primitive male combat, over a manly woman's Career, was unmodern and grotesque.
If he gets it roached up on both sides that will make me look like a horizontal-bar performer, which is his idea of manly beauty.
Nor say thou, that virtue, in the eye of Heaven, is as much a manly as a womanly grace.
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