GIRL in a Sentence

Learn GIRL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

387 example sentences for GIRL, such as:

1. The girl scrambled over the wall.
2. The camera zoomed in on the girl's face.
3. A boy and a girl were sitting on a bench.
4. Every girl was once an angel without tears.
5. The girl glanced at the words, but made no sign.

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 Meanings and Examples of GIRL
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girl
 n.  a female child or young woman, especially one still at school
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It was the picture of a girl with a laughing face.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  He gave a puzzled glance at the little girl sitting on the large stool.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  The little girl from India was sitting on a big footstool looking on.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  He sat down upon the end of the pine bench and the girl hitched herself away from him with a toss of her head.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  The girl glanced at the words, but made no sign.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  The girl made a sort of non-committal attempt to see, but the boy did not betray that he was aware of it.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  Then the girl's interest began to fasten itself upon the work and she forgot everything else.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  Everyone was too panic-stricken to think of a little girl no one was fond of.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
9  "I am Mary Lennox," the little girl said, drawing herself up stiffly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  Poor girl, she did not know how fast she was nearing trouble herself.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
11  A little shamefaced girl lisped, "Mary had a little lamb," etc.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  Please to don't poke fun at a poor girl like me, mum.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI.
13  You do a girl tolerable poor, but you might fool men, maybe.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI.
14  She wondered a little what this girl would do if one slapped her in the face.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  Says I to myself, something's up; it ain't natural for a girl to be in such a sweat about a Testament.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII.
Example Sentence: (177 in 12 pages)
16  The girl scrambled over the wall.
17  As a young girl, she spent every weekend riding her pony.
18  Tim sidled up/over to the girl sitting at the bar and asked if he could buy her a drink.
19  There was a group of lads at the bar, eyeing up every girl who walked in.
20  He wondered if the girl behind the counter recognised him.
21  Every girl was once an angel without tears.
22  A young girl and her little brother were seriously hurt when a car ploughed into them on a crossing.
23  The girl asked her father to free the bird from the cage.
24  They demanded a huge ransom for the return of the little girl whom they had kidnapped.
25  A boy and a girl were sitting on a bench.
26  The girl was aphasic because of brain damage suffered during a difficult birth.
27  Anne Frank was the girl whose diary put a human face on the Holocaust.
28  The camera zoomed in on the girl's face.
29  The doctor thought the girl's illness should be kept back from her because it was cancer.
30  The worst thing a girl can do: Give the guy who just broke her heart another chance.