girlhood

Example Sentences

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A decade later, we are deep in the latest girlhood panic cycle, and this time the antagonist is the phone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

In every decade, America rediscovers that girlhood is in crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

She was in and out of psychiatric wards throughout our girlhood.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

This book jolted me back to my own millennial girlhood, as I grew up more or less during the time Gilbert describes.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2025

“And her best girlhood friend, Cally, she got herself married and moved to Oregon. Pretty hasn’t seen her in years. She has a pack of children and hardly has time to even write anymore.”

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney