How to Use girl in a Sentence

girl

noun
  • This is a world of girls and boys.
    — Lillian Fishman, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
  • That's my girl, that's my girl!
    — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Fight, girls, and hold your heads high.
    — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Feb. 2026
  • This adorable girl is as sweet as can be.
    — Maryanne Dell, Oc Register, 23 May 2026
  • And this girl’s about to f***ing beat my ass!
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Now that’s my kind of sporty girls’ night out!
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 11 June 2026
  • The young girl was going to do it again.
    — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Come and meet this lovely girl.
    — Maryanne Dell, Oc Register, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Amazing things are in store for this girl.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
  • There was one girl who licked doorknobs.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • And what causes girls to drop out of sports?
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
  • In either case, very good girl.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Someone please give this sweet girl a chance!
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The other girl’s hair was pulled.
    — Debra Newman Kamin, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
  • Keep dreaming them big ol dreams my sweet girl.
    — Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
  • Shout out to my boys and my baby girl, man.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Likhuleni gave birth to two boys and two girls.
    — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
  • Tambourine, the boys and girls had called me.
    — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Five in girls tennis and five in e-sports.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
  • Of course, the same goes for the baby girls.
    — Zoey Lyttle, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Harold comes with a little girl, their child.
    — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The world’s a better place when girls do sports.
    — Rachel Roberts, Idaho Statesman, 14 Feb. 2026
  • These girls put 20 hours a week in this gym all year round.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 24 May 2026
  • The two girls could not be more unalike, and are not friends.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
  • These cruise lines make planning your next girls trip a breeze.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Not bad for a girl won won’t start high school until this fall.
    — Stan Awtrey, AJC.com, 4 June 2026
  • This guest even slipped on some socks for some extra cool girl points.
    — Amanda Le, InStyle, 27 June 2026
  • So what’s a midlife girl (who’s tired of cottage cheese) to do?
    — Rita Templeton, Flow Space, 13 Feb. 2026
  • There’s the kind of tough bad girl, Mira.
    — Charlie Harding, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Ugh, this girl is just using Carter to get beer?
    — William Earl, Variety, 15 May 2026

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