gamin

Example Sentences

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By the end of the night, her gamin crop is plastered to her forehead with sweat; her smile is a little dazed, as if she isn’t quite sure what just happened.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2019

Mr. Givenchy was shocked when the doe-eyed, gamin beauty walked into his studio.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2018

This musical about a French gamin finding love, adapted by Craig Lucas, Daniel Messé and Nathan Tysen from the Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie, will steal its final garden gnome.

From New York Times • May 18, 2017

Petra Kelly, 35, the feisty, fiery gamin who speaks as the uncrowned leader of the Greens, is hard to overlook.

From Time Magazine Archive

But that was when he was Sparrer Muldoon, street gamin and champion scrapper of the gang; with no higher ethics than the right of might.

From The Boy Scouts in A Trapper's Camp by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)