How to Use schoolgirl in a Sentence

schoolgirl

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  • Two rows of schoolgirls are led by a nun through the yard.
    — Christina Newland, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2023
  • In May, a man stabbed 17 schoolgirls, killing one of them and an adult.
    — Motoko Rich, New York Times, 17 July 2019
  • Still, the schoolgirl jumped from the back seat and pulled the key from the ignition, stopping the car from rolling.
    — Joanne Fowler, Peoplemag, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Frankie inquired, the vision of a schoolgirl dragged in to meet her vivid in her mind. . . .
    — Washington Post, 27 June 2021
  • His cousin was among the six slain, along with a schoolgirl hit by stray gunfire.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Two 14-year old boys have been found guilty in the murder of a schoolgirl in Ireland.
    — Megan Marples and Erica Hernandez, CNN, 19 June 2019
  • The women giggle like schoolgirls as they are pulled down the slick lane.
    — Lynn Ischay, cleveland, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Malala Yousafzai was a schoolgirl in Pakistan when the Taliban took over her town.
    — Martha Shade, CNN, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Amy*, 28, was a schoolgirl when her teacher locked her in a classroom and raped her.
    — Jenn Selby, refinery29.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • In 1988, the house was burned to the ground by local youths furious at the rapes of schoolgirls by club members.
    — Glenn Frankel, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
  • There’s nothing so cutting as the words spoken to you as a teenage schoolgirl, are there?
    — Claire Cohen, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The probe began after the case of a Black schoolgirl in 2020 prompted protests in east London.
    — Ellen Francis, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The schoolgirl Yasmin, still in awe of her parents’ true love, writes a short story for class about it.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2022
  • In one scene, a schoolgirl is drugged and raped after a party, and the film of her assault is used to blackmail her.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The bomb missed its target, but 21 people were wounded and a 12-year-old schoolgirl was killed.
    — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Those schoolgirl blazers are on the top of many wish lists, as are the army green cargo pants and the simple, striped turtlenecks.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Two years before the murder, he was charged with trying to abduct a schoolgirl who stood less than 5 feet.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Most of the schoolgirls from Dapchi were returned by the militants themselves.
    — New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • The bold manicure added an edgy twist to her schoolgirl costume.
    — Hannah Kerns, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2022
  • As a schoolgirl, Sae-ri, the narrator, was seduced by a teacher and gave birth to a son, Min-soo, out of wedlock.
    — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • There’s a group of Dutch schoolgirls discussing whether Rembrandt gave the only woman in the painting the face of his wife, Saskia.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
  • This afternoon, old men wilt in a cleft in the rocks, and a schoolgirl hauls a plastic bag heavy with one fat octopus.
    — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019
  • The world’s largest oil-producing nations have a few words for a five-foot-nothing Swedish schoolgirl: back off.
    — Natasha Frost, Quartz, 6 July 2019
  • And yet in the hands of Burberry, Brock Collection, and Monse, plaid has lost its schoolgirl edge and assumed a new, cooler stance.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2018
  • Frozan, who goes by one name, is the first schoolgirl in northern Balkh province's Marmul district to keep bees.
    — Zabihullah Noori, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Till Noon on the Sea, a drama looking at the kidnapping of a young schoolgirl and its aftermath.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The 30-year-old singer just took to Instagram to post not one, but two amazing snaps of her in a super cool schoolgirl outfit.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 14 Apr. 2023
  • As an object of desire, the schoolgirl is familiar enough—as a subject in her own right, less so.
    — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • That ridicule turned to anger in February, when Boko Haram abducted 110 schoolgirls in Dapchi, in the northeast.
    — Emmanuel Akinwotu, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Donkeys hauling carts plodded along dusty streets, and schoolgirls in headscarves and long, old-fashioned coats huddled to gossip.
    — Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023

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