How to Use showgirl in a Sentence

showgirl

noun
  • That’s just the life of a showgirl.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
  • And that’s the life of a showgirl.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The showgirl is headed back to the big screen.
    — Ava Pukatch, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The life of a showgirl never slows down.
    — Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Resorts were shut down, there were no showgirls, no tourists.
    — Alex Backus, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025
  • But can this artists' muse turned showgirl pull off the greatest act of her life?
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The video is a tour through various eras of showgirl-ism.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Sun Ra twirled, his arms and wrists as fluid as a showgirl’s.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Follow that with his quote about show biz combined with the showgirls who saunter by?
    — Anna Chan, Billboard, 25 Sep. 2025
  • All’s well in the world of showgirls that ends in stadium-sized co-bills.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • There’s another side to that coin, looking at the showgirl as a victim of change.
    — Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Below, find a full rundown of what’s going on in the life of our most famous showgirl.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Cher in a bat-crazy mash-up of witchy showgirl and Halloween Big Bird.
    — CNN, 20 May 2021
  • The showgirl yearns for true love — yet on her own fiercely independent terms.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025
  • To this day, every show is stuffed full of showgirls in feathers and sequins, dancing and singing.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 9 Dec. 2015
  • The gown's feathery sleeves offered a campy flair that made the look equal parts showgirl and high-fashion model.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 4 May 2026
  • Swift clearly doesn’t want to play the ever-grinning showgirl anymore.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2025
  • My aunt was a top showgirl, and she was pursued a lot by different characters around town.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Feb. 2022
  • In Vegas today, the showgirls are holding the cards.
    — Zoey Goto, Architectural Digest, 6 May 2026
  • So Jerry sent Doug Kershaw and a limo full of showgirls over to hang out.
    — Ed Masley, azcentral, 21 June 2019
  • Handmade white chocolate pineapple leaves turn each into a tiny showgirl of a pastry.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 3 June 2021
  • Because her latest look was one of her glitziest, glammiest showgirl looks yet.
    — Meg Walters, InStyle, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The stereotype of us being dancing, singing, puppet showgirls.
    — Neha Prakash, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2017
  • For a showgirl seeking tips from that crowd, a good day’s haul might be $200, Dubrava said.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
  • These were strippers, hookers, actresses, and showgirls, all of them with knock-out bodies.
    — Cher, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
  • How does a showgirl stay grounded after such a tremendous spectacle?
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Not only is there a new showgirl showdown, but there are also new songs co-produced by Leland.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 21 Apr. 2022
  • The life of a showgirl does not, in fact, involve performing on the world's biggest musical stage.
    — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
  • So did a woman, wondering if by chance SI needed any showgirls.
    — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Jenner's sequined, showgirl ensemble was very fitting for the night's theme.
    — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025

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