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How to use lassie in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Lassie means a young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart. Example: “Witches pursued their wanchancy calling, bairns were spirited away, young lassies selled their souls to the Evil One, and the Accuser of the Brethren, in the shape of a black tyke, was seen about cottage doors in the gloaming.”

Examples of lassie by meaning

nounA young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart.

  • Witches pursued their wanchancy calling, bairns were spirited away, young lassies selled their souls to the Evil One, and the Accuser of the Brethren, in the shape of a black tyke, was seen about cottage doors in the gloaming.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
  • She was caught in this git-a-man, git-a-bairn, git-a-hoose shite that lassies git drummed intae them, and hud nae real chance ay defining hersel ootside ay they mashed-tattie-fir-brains terms ay reference.1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “Bang to Rites”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 220

More sentences with lassie

  • It isnae healthy a lassie reading all the time the way ye do.2013, Sandra Brown, Where There Is Evil, page 31. From the entry specky
  • “I kenna whatna man ye are,” he says, “but ye have the skill of lassies' hearts.1902, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and other tales, Edinburgh; London: W. Blackwood & Sons…. From the entry skill
  • But there was a reason, and the reason, as in most like cases, was a lassie.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry like
  • 'I kenna whatna man ye are,' he says, 'but ye have the skill of lassies' hearts.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry whatna
  • In those days, when Prince and Adam were my heroes, I had no "troakings" with lassies.1901, J. H. Balfour Browne, “‘Roaring Games’”, in Essays in Paradox, Longmans, Green & Co., page 152. From the entry troak
  • Lassies writhing on little checkerboard handkerchiefs of dancefloor.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 125. From the entry dancefloor
  • 'Mind we saw a couple o' young lassies that time comin' oot and goin' intae the Co-op,' a man said.2016, BRM Stewart, Digital Investigations, page 90. From the entry stoater
  • The Salvation Army lassies could certainly take a lot of credit for the improved standing of the all-American pastry.2014, Michael Krondl, The Donut: History, Recipes, and Lore from Boston to Berlin, Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN, page 58. From the entry mom and apple pie
  • Ye same lassies, tightsome bent, Come, sing along with me.1975, Walter Raymond Iley, Corbridge, Border village, page 169. From the entry tightsome
  • That pottie’s too wee for six, Minnie, lassie.1963, Jane Duncan [pseudonym; Elizabeth Jane Cameron], chapter 10, in My Friend Madame Zora, London: Pan Books, published 1966, →OCLC…. From the entry flowery
  • What signifies keeping the poor lassie in a swither?1910, Alfred Harmsworth Northcliffe, The World's Greatest Books, page 272. From the entry uphand
  • She would cry out that Heriotside was an ill-doing wastrel, and had no business to come and flatter honest lassies.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry wastrel
  • The lassie had grace given her to refuse, but with a woeful heart, and Heriotside rode off in black discontent, leaving poor Ailie to sigh her love.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry black
  • It was hard enough to explain in words a skill that came so naturally to Jimmy, without having some glaiket doolally lassie breathing her chewing-gummy, nicotine breath all over him.2003, Catherine Forde, Fat Boy Swim, London: Egmont Books Limited, →ISBN, page 164. From the entry chewing-gummy

Meaning of lassie

  1. noun A young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart.

Full definition of lassie

Questions about lassie in a sentence

How do you use lassie in a sentence?
Lassie is used as a noun. For example: “Witches pursued their wanchancy calling, bairns were spirited away, young lassies selled their souls to the Evil One, and the Accuser of the Brethren, in the shape of a black tyke, was seen about cottage doors in the gloaming.”
What is a short sentence with lassie?
“Lassies writhing on little checkerboard handkerchiefs of dancefloor.”
What does lassie mean?
Lassie means a young girl, a lass, especially one seen as a sweetheart.

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