WASHINGTON — Four female senators shared personal experiences of sexual harassment Sunday in support of the #MeToo movement formed in the wake of the widespread Harvey Weinstein abuse allegations.

Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) revealed on NBC’s “Meet the Press” the sexist behavior they faced before becoming powerful politicians in Washington.

Warren, a former law professor, said a senior faculty member invited her to his office and made sexual advances during her first teaching job.

“He slammed the door and lunged for me. It was like a bad cartoon. He’s chasing me around the desk, trying to get his hands on me,” Warren said. “After several rounds, I jumped for the door and got out and I went back to my office and just sat and shook and thought: ‘What have I done to bring this on?’”

As a young Missouri state lawmaker, McCaskill sought advice from a male leader on getting her legislation passed.

“I cautiously approached the very powerful speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives,” McCaskill recalled. “…He looked at me and paused and he said, ‘Well, did you bring your kneepads?'”

“I do think he was joking, but it was shocking that he would make that joke to a colleague,” she said.

“Meet the Press” asked every female member of the Senate — all 21 — if they would share stories they might have of sexual harassment. Four senators, all Democrats, agreed.

Heitkamp said as a state attorney general, she encountered resistance to her efforts to curb domestic violence.

A law enforcement official “put his finger in my face and he said, ‘Listen here, men will always beat their wives and you can’t stop ‘em.'”

Hirono, a lawyer and former state politician in Hawaii, said unwanted sexual advances have been all too common in her life.

“I’ve been propositioned by teachers, by my colleagues, and you name it,” she said.

After more women in Hollywood stepped forward with horrific Weinstein stories, actress Alyssa Milano encouraged all women to step forward about the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault — and popularized the social media movement #metoo.

Warren said she kept quiet about her sexual harassment.

“I told my best friend about it and never said a word to anyone else,” Warren said. “But for a long time, I wore a lot of brown.”

The senators expressed regret that so many women have been made to feel diminished by men like Weinstein.

“Isn’t it a shame that it took something as horrific as this kind of event to make people strong enough to actually speak up and that the voices of all these women are so much stronger and louder together,” Heitkamp said.