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How to use lass in a sentence

36 example sentences · noun

Lass means a girl; also (by extension), a young woman. Example: “Come and dance, ye lads and lasses!”

Examples of lass by meaning

nounA girl; also (by extension), a young woman.

  • Come and dance, ye lads and lasses!
  • My audience to this not-too-easy operation was a small group of Scottish school lasses, who seemed (perhaps naturally) to find the proceedings somewhat mysterious, but at any rate amusing.1952 February, H[enry] C[yril] Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 77

nounA female member of the Salvation Army; a hallelujah lass.

  • Jenny Hill, a pale, overwrought, pretty Salvation lass of 18, comes in through the yard gate, leading Peter Shirley, a half hardened, half worn-out elderly man, weak with hunger.1905, [George] Bernard Shaw, “Major Barbara”, in John Bull’s Other Island and Major Barbara: Also How He Lied to Her Husband, London...

nounA female servant; a maid, a maidservant.

  • She fleyed Johnnie awa' frae the door when he was for daffin' wi' the serving lasses.[1927 July, John Buchan, “The Black Wood by Day”, in Witch Wood, London: Hodder and Stoughton, published August 1927, →OCLC, page 90

More sentences with lass

  • All right now, that'll do, lass, that'll do!From the entry that'll do
  • She’s a canny lass hor like!From the entry canny
  • I mean, all the lasses will be after him, him being an undermanager.2017, Maggie Hope, The Coal Miner's Daughter, →ISBN. From the entry undermanager
  • The thing must be given freely or misfortune rebounds.” Ah, but Andrei had already bespelled the lass.2014, Maggie MacKeever, Vampire, Bespelled. From the entry bespell
  • Never have I seen children take to a lass the way yours've taken to Karola.2009, Robin Lee Hatcher, Promised to Me. From the entry yours've
  • I couldn't stop a pig in a passage, could I lass?2004, Margaret Dickinson, chapter 15, in Red Sky in the Morning. From the entry couldn't stop a pig in a passage
  • A young nurse, a big raw-boned country lass, plodder her way down to the building.1994, Jim Ranie, Jargodin: The Moonlighter, Brisbane: Jim Ranie, page 194. From the entry raw-boned
  • From lawn-sleeved ranters to kerbstone canters, From bishops to Army lasses.1974, Bill Wannan, With Malice Aforethought, page 85. From the entry canter
  • Trouble is: Gus hasn’t made passes at any of the lasses.1947 April 19, “Non-Necking Swan Swain Pain In Neck of Unpecked Swanees”, in Valley Times, volume XI, number 94, North Hollywood, Calif.…. From the entry swaness
  • She was a hugsome lass; quiet enough to start in, but awful jumpy when she got going.1933, Malinda Plunkett Jenkins, Jesse Lilienthal, Gambler's wife. From the entry hugsome
  • Ye came here to daften my lass Peggy again, so ye thought.1909, Halliwell Sutcliffe, Priscilla of the Good Intent, page 57. From the entry daften
  • Meanwhile, the lass grew up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry communicant
  • She flyted on the lass till the poor thing's cheek paled.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry flyte
  • The redhaired Irish lass tending bar poured us a nice glass of stout and we began to check out the clientele.2016 September 8, George S. Fleetwood, Put Another Pin in the Map: The Interesting Places I’ve Seen and the Food I’ve Eaten, AuthorHouse…. From the entry slammed
  • Ay, lass, you’ve ruined your chances now.2011, Cynthia B. Huntington, “Full Circle”, in Through Her Eyes: An Infidel’s Perspective […], [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 88. From the entry ay
  • As George whittled the lengthy wood, his tussis nearly cured, he found himself surrounded by curious lads and lasses.2010, Karen Bowden-Cox, Honorable Passage: Repaying Evil With..., page 156. From the entry tussis
  • None lasses were in the dunces' row.2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 138. From the entry none
  • The lasses picked up their skirts and exeunted.2003, Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver, page 142. From the entry exeunt
  • An ' if thou'll make a shift To tak thi time a bit, owd lass, Thou's have him in a snift!”1982, Brian Hollingworth, Songs of the People: Lancashire Dialect Poetry, page 71. From the entry snift
  • Ye see I wor as gawmless as our 'Arriet when I wor a lass, but I mended faster.1916, William Riley, Netherleigh, page 132. From the entry gawmless
  • But, now I know you love the lass, I'll say I saw her yesterdawn as blooming as her name.1905, Weymer Jay Mills, Caroline of Courtlandt Street, page 214. From the entry yesterdawn
  • Moreover, he was of gentle kin, and she was a poor lass biding in a cot house with an ill-reputed mother.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry reputed
  • There was now, for instance, that bonny respectable well-handed lass in the village -- Thora Garth -- what objection could there be to her?2014, George Mackay Brown, Hawkfall, →ISBN. From the entry well-handed
  • I met a Latvian lass who enjoyed pillioning, showed me her country and best spots — yes, the best way to enjoy a country!2011, Al Culler, Motorcycle Travels and Travails. From the entry pillion
  • You look a right canny lass.2010, Clare B. Dunkle, The House of Dead Maids, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry maidie
  • More specifically, how do you find that lass who first induced priapic glee in the ol' fuzzy downbelows behind the bike sheds?2007, Joe Shooman, "Whose Space is it Anyway?". From the entry downbelows
  • Unskinny was a self-published riot of large lasses getting lairy in northern towns, and did a reasonable trade via friends and comic shops.2002 July 27, “‘We wouldn′t dream of making you feel fat’”, in Glasgow Herald. From the entry lairy
  • Lass, thy fundas are invariably gol!!1993, http://groups-beta.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/msg/26a9f8eb80811a3a. From the entry fundas
  • Why didn't he go to the May Island, the silly kipper that he was, and bring us all back a nice wee lass instead of you, you nasty brat!'2018, Rosemary Goring, Scotland: Her Story. From the entry kipper
  • Still, I've known most things worth knowing, seen most things worth seeing, aye, and had most things worth having though you'll not believe that, my lass."1916, Littell's Living Age, volume 289. From the entry tedisome
  • They sit among the flowers and look for all the world like young London lasses who have come to the village to astonish the country folks with their town finery.1904 September, George R. Sims, “Off The Track in London V.--Round Hackney Wick”, in The Strand Magazine, London: George Newnes, Ltd.…. From the entry toodle-oo
  • It so chanced that on the second day after my arrival a pack-train came along, guided by a nettlesome old man and a strong, black-haired lass of sixteen or thereabouts.1904, Winston Churchill, The Crossing (2003 Kessinger reprint), p. 61. From the entry nettlesome

Meaning of lass

  1. noun A girl; also (by extension), a young woman.
  2. noun A female member of the Salvation Army; a hallelujah lass.
  3. noun A sweetheart.

Full definition of lass

Questions about lass in a sentence

How do you use lass in a sentence?
Lass is used as a noun. For example: “Come and dance, ye lads and lasses!”
What is a short sentence with lass?
“Lass, thy fundas are invariably gol!!”
What does lass mean?
Lass means a girl; also (by extension), a young woman.

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