How to Use femme fatale in a Sentence

femme fatale

noun
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  • Pair yours with tights and a short trench for a femme fatale vibe.
    — Erin Parker, Glamour, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The femme fatale vibe doesn't stop with her hair, either.
    — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Then there’s the Portia spider that Cross calls the femme fatale.
    — National Geographic, 16 Feb. 2017
  • Proof that there's no time like the second trimester for a diehard femme fatale to show off what she's got.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The plot was thwarted by Batman, but the femme fatale may have stolen his heart.
    — George Gene Gustines, New York Times, 1 July 2018
  • Watch also as Gaetz tries to avoid the temptations of the evil femme fatale, A.O.C.
    — Patrick Crooks, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2020
  • One was the leader, one was the femme fatale/comic relief, and one was the muscle.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2021
  • For instance, women in film noir: The femme fatale has all of this power.
    — Shaad D'souza, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Have you ever been lured in by a femme fatale and taken on a wild journey?
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Is the femme fatale to blame for the murder, or is she just another victim?
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 11 July 2019
  • Maluma's bad-boy charm meets J.Lo's femme fatale is bound to make for something special.
    — Marjua Estevez, Billboard, 3 Jan. 2018
  • She’s a happy-go-lucky femme fatale of the Instagram era.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Abigail Spencer’s take on the typical femme fatale is here to shake things up.
    — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2019
  • But a deep, plunging side part has always had a little femme fatale bite to it.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Maybe that’s why, in 2023, the most effective femme fatale is one who can fool the audience.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
  • What is, after all, the cultural longevity of the bombshell, the femme fatale?
    — Rhonda Garelick, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Turns out a femme fatale has been poisoning and plotting for their end all along.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024
  • What if Georgie’s not really in love with Alex, but just using him all along, a la a femme fatale?
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Is the woman who walks into his office a femme fatale or a damsel in distress?
    — Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Like the femme fatale portrayed in that song, or indeed, in many noir films, the Monica in this film aims to be a survivor.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Rebecca Ferguson is Mae, the femme fatale of the piece.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The single is bass-heavy but sultry, the sonic equivalent of a femme fatale.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Then, like a noir femme fatale, into his auto shop walked Cari, needing some help with her car.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The search is on for a pair of femme fatales who drugged and then robbed a poker-playing tourist in Hollywood, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.
    — Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • M3gan may not dream of electric sheep, but she’s got some killer dance moves and a CPU as delightfully wicked as any femme fatale.
    — Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The looks were styled with tight twin braids and dark lipstick — contrasting innocence with a femme fatale touch.
    — Colleen Barry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Sleeping Dogs plays with the tropes of the femme fatale through Baines, although Gillan hesitates to use that description for her.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
  • To make matters stranger, Bill keeps envisioning his lover as a femme fatale with fins.
    — Alexandra Brady, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Because when a French bombshell does femme fatale beauty with a twist, the results are sheer magic.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Had the outfit been worn by a movie villain, it would instantly be entered into the femme fatale canon.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 31 Oct. 2023

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