How to Use tomboy in a Sentence

tomboy

noun
  • There is no benign male version of tomboy.
    — Adam Stanaland, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Georgia’s a bit of a tomboy and likes wearing t-shirts and jeans.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The only girl in the house with four boys, Harris was always known as a tomboy.
    — Veronica Wells, Essence, 25 Oct. 2022
  • An 11-year-old tomboy tries to fit in with her peers after joining an all-girl dance team.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The singer who was able to code-switch from tomboy to ultra-glam is still the blueprint for women’s streetwear.
    — Nandi Howard, Essence, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Split between the runway and the slopes, Elys is the perfect blend of tomboy and girly girl.
    — Monique Wilson, Glamour, 6 July 2023
  • Does that mean gay women can't be vintage car-loving, sneaks and jeans-wearing tomboys who hang out with men?
    — Kasandra Brabaw, refinery29.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • As kids, Jo is the bookish tomboy and Bethie the feminine good girl.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 8 June 2019
  • Roberta is a tomboy, perplexed by the changes in her developing body.
    — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Her style is one-part tomboy, one-part South African material gworl.
    — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 19 May 2022
  • As of late her tomboy chic approach to everydaywear has been a joy to watch and document.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Go Eun-chan (played by Yoon Eun-hye), a poor, hard-working girl who’s a bit of a tomboy.
    — Amanda Rosenberg, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
  • From sweet to western to tomboy to romantic, the brand has something for everyone.
    — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Sarah was a tomboy dancer from Colorado who spent her free time hiking and exploring castles.
    — Christina Ray Stanton, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Born the middle child of five girls, Blunk was always the family’s tomboy and athlete.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
  • In this social setting, they would be called tomboys, who fight like boys and are fiercely independent.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Sherry is described as a tomboy who enjoyed farm work in 1984 and knew how to drive a tractor.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Yoo wears round wire-frame glasses and sweeps his dark hair back; Schat describes herself as a tomboy and keeps her hair in a pixie cut.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Growing up, Braiden had always had the sensation of being in the wrong body and behaved like a tomboy.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Diane was a quirky, sociable tomboy with a natural gift for making people laugh.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Growing up in the southern city of Nanjing, Lu Keran was a tomboy.
    — Amy Qin, New York Times, 20 May 2017
  • The athletic tomboy, all of 9, wasn’t the least bit interested in the preacher’s son.
    — Mary Wakeford, azcentral, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Kennon described her as a child with wide-ranging interests -- a girly girl and a tomboy, a lover of princesses and of dragons.
    — Sophie Austin, Dallas News, 15 July 2021
  • Mary Kate was a tomboy in snapbacks while Ashley was the princess in pink (our pop-culture gender norms were less evolved back then).
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 30 Nov. 2020
  • As a kid, Gill was a tomboy who had five acres of property to roam at the family home and endless woods surrounding it.
    — Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com, 25 June 2017
  • There’s often a tomboy sensibility at play too, with vintage tees and lightly distressed knits.
    — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 25 May 2026
  • Growing up in the North of France, Grevenitis, a tomboy, would tear the hair off her Barbie dolls.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The two singers recalled their own girlhoods, bonding over growing up as tomboys during a time when it was stigmatized to prefer sports over dolls.
    — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Apr. 2026
  • In the miniseries she’s portrayed as a tomboy who grew up on a cattle station, and who fiercely resents the school’s efforts to refine her.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 29 May 2018
  • Friends described Moore as funny and vivacious, a onetime tomboy who loved sports and the rapper Drake.
    — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2021

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