How to Use schoolgirl in a Sentence

schoolgirl

noun

• 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
• This little clip adds a hint of edge to make any look less schoolgirl and more punk rock.
  — Tatjana Freund, ELLE, 12 May 2017
• 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
• Only when the tiny figure of the Catholic schoolgirl passes out of frame does the camera pan up and show us a pious stone face, hands clasped in prayer.
  — Annie Sisk, baltimoresun.com, 22 May 2017
• 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
• Evelyn is at a turning point—no longer a schoolgirl, starting to outgrow the narrowness of her family life.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
• And alliances between constituents as diverse as schoolgirls, oil workers, and Kurdish nationalists have emerged.
  — Zoe Marks, Foreign Affairs, 31 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024