schoolgirl
Example Sentences
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Then just a starry-eyed Catholic schoolgirl, she remembers walking down Times Square and hearing a woman singing in the streets in a style unknown to her.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
One 17-year-old schoolgirl in north Tehran said the city felt like a vast cemetery.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
Two other British women refused to speak, including Shamima Begum, who left London as a schoolgirl to join IS.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026
Brahim Chnina, the Moroccan father of a schoolgirl who falsely claimed that Paty had asked Muslim students to leave his classroom before showing the caricatures, was sentenced to 13 years.
From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026
I’d yell, “Hold on!” and Grandpa would whoop and hold Miss Love tighter, and she’d shriek and giggle like a schoolgirl.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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