How to Use girlboss in a Sentence

girlboss

noun
  • Unlike the always-hustling girlboss, the girlies do not dream of labor.
    — Iva Dixit, New York Times, 2023-09-19
  • In didn’t come out until 2013, but the girlboss was already in the ether.
    — Nate Jones, Vulture, 2024-08-20
  • Scratch a girlboss, find a monster is a common revelation in these shows.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 2024-10-02
  • If #girlboss were a dress—minus the negative connotations—this would be that dress.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 2023-12-13
  • Blunt stars as our whistleblower/window into all the excess, a Gulf Coast girlboss named Liza Drake.
    — EW.com, 2023-10-27
  • The first was about a dubious girlboss at the head of a fictional media company, one not unlike BuzzFeed.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 2022-06-28
  • But almost every notable girlboss tumbled out of the C-suite in rapid succession in June 2020.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 2023-07-23
  • This passive-aggressive girlboss duel never rises to the level of actual dramatic stakes.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 2024-09-21
  • Whether this makes the movie an innately feminist work or, as some detractors have claimed, a superficial girlboss narrative is certainly open to debate.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 2023-12-07
  • But Birgitte’s resignation doesn’t satisfy, not as a narrative of a girlboss learning her limits nor as a beloved politician’s return to form.
    — Kylie Warner, The New Yorker, 2022-08-04
  • Although recent years have been pink-heavy, thanks to the influence of The Wing, Glossier, and all those 2010s girlboss brands, peach has its own niche appeal.
    — Katy Kelleher, refinery29.com, 2023-12-20
  • Many of these uncomfortable ideas are embodied in Merwyn, a sort of medieval-fantasy girlboss whose reaction to her own oppression is to turn around and oppress others even harder.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 2022-12-22
  • Rebounding after a divorce, Mavis’ girlboss pal Marley (Tasha Smith) explores new frontiers of sexuality.
    — Time, 2023-07-13

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