girlfriend

Example Sentences

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But, she says, back in the 1990s, “if you weren’t the hot girlfriend or the young wife, which I just wasn’t, there really was only police officer.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

It sounds, from what you say in your letter, like your husband wants a girlfriend, not a wife.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026

Calvin Kern, 23, has been saving in the Lifetime ISA for two years and hopes to buy a two-bedroom property with his girlfriend before he turns 30.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Sitting in the front row was his girlfriend Paula Hurd, one of his sisters and Larry Cohen, the longtime CEO of Gates Ventures and his right-hand man.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

“I suppose that is your girlfriend? Your Penelope? Your Elizabeth? Your Annabeth?”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan