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How to use molly in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun, verb

Molly means a woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute. Example: “Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.”

Examples of molly by meaning

nounPure MDMA powder.

  • But also hyper-lit, euphoric almost, given the adrenaline plus molly.2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN

verbTo engage in (male) homosexual activity with.

  • I said, "I never mollied you." My Lord, I never laid Hands upon him, nor touch'd him.1998, Netta Murray Goldsmith, The Worst of Crimes, page 79
  • On one occasion, Partridge was nearly mobbed in a molly-house when some men called him a 'treacherous, blowing-up, mollying bitch, and swore they'd massacre anybody that should betray them.'2007, Matt Cook, A Gay History of Britain
  • It is a case of the biter bit, or the molly-taker mollied, but it is also an interesting example of the ways in which the criminal underworld and sexual underworld met in eighteenth-century London2017, Peter Ackroyd, Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day

nounA Molotov cocktail.

  • Brimstone, Viper, and Phoenix's mollies were adjusted during a closed beta patch, changing the damage tick speed so players couldn't avoid damage by bunny hopping.2020 August 5, Andreas Stavropoulos, “Hiko on Killjoy's Nanoswarm: "I think they do a lot of damage too fast and I think it's hard to even...

More sentences with molly

  • Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.From the entry shrink
  • I had a mixed community aquarium with several tetras, two mollies, some corydoras catfish, and a platy from a previous tank.From the entry platy
  • Hippie flipping, where molly is taken alongside mushrooms, provides a similar effect.2024 February 16, Suzannah Weiss, “Nexus Flipping: What Happens When You Combine MDMA and 2C-B”, in Double Blind Magazine, archived from…. From the entry candy flip
  • Molly poured from the teapot and Judith drank the strong hot tea and ate the buttered teacakes.2008 December 11, Rosamunde Pilcher, Coming Home, Hachette UK, →ISBN. From the entry teacake
  • Molly pulled the heavy antique-rose drape away from the window and peered out.2006, Linda Goodnight, A Very Special Delivery, page 270. From the entry antique rose
  • Molly worked at her picnics like she tended her roses or worked on her veggie garden, breathlessly.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 11. From the entry veggie garden
  • Molly, in the regulation blue serge and coloured hat-ribbon of schoolgirldom, approached her grand-uncle with solemn eyes.1925, Ian Hay, Paid in Full, page 138. From the entry schoolgirldom
  • For a less well-known combination, some are mixing molly with a synthetic psychedelic called 2C-B, a combination known as nexus flipping.2024 February 16, Suzannah Weiss, “Nexus Flipping: What Happens When You Combine MDMA and 2C-B”, in Double Blind Magazine, archived from…. From the entry candy flip
  • In Andrew Thomas, the Giants have their hog molly.2020 April 23, Ken Belson, Ben Shpigel, “Full Round 1 2020 N.F.L. Picks and Analysis”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry hog molly
  • Else what's the point of a molly house?2014, Mark Ravenhill, Mother Clap's Molly House, page 71. From the entry molly house
  • To include switch, cut-out and molly guard, you'll probably need to order at least two, probably three components.2008 September 6, Simon Slavin, “Manual on/off switch with electrical off-trip?”, in uk.comp.sys.mac (Usenet). From the entry molly-guard
  • Molly sleeps this morning as her parents, per their promise, travel down memory lane from their just-delivered leather sofa.1989, Larry L. Meyer, “August 16: An Irish Wedding Revisited”, in My Summer with Molly: The Journal of a Second Generation Father…. From the entry memory lane
  • Molly and Daisy finished their breakfast and decided to take all their dirty clothes and wash them in the soak further down the river.1996, Doris Pinkington, “Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence”, in Heiss, Minter, editors, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature…. From the entry soak
  • Molly had been in love with Sick Boy since he necked with her in a seedy disco-bar in Leith a few weeks ago.1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 326. From the entry neck
  • Molly Metropolis certainly understood the importance of trap streets, and as she constructed her map of real train lines and paper ones, she included traps of her own.2015, Catie Disabato, The Ghost Network, Melville House, →ISBN. From the entry trap street
  • At areas of slightly higher elevations, soils were less salty and supported a cold desert chenopod shrub community consisting predominately of shadscale (Atriplex confertifolia) and gray molly (Kochia americana).2015 October 15, “Evaluation of Scat Deposition Transects versus Radio Telemetry for Developing a Species Distribution Model for a Rare…. From the entry shadscale
  • Natives came 30 miles over the ice in two sleighs from Navy Board Inlet; hundreds of mollies following the ship all day for bits of krang and blubber.1900, Andrew Barclay Walker, The Cruise of the Esquimaux, Steam Whaler, to Davis Straits and Baffin Bay, April-October 1899, page 47. From the entry krang

Meaning of molly

  1. noun A woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute.
  2. noun A male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
  3. noun Pure MDMA powder.

Full definition of molly

Questions about molly in a sentence

How do you use molly in a sentence?
Molly is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Molly shrank away from the blows of the whip.”
What is a short sentence with molly?
“Else what's the point of a molly house?”
What does molly mean?
Molly means a woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute.

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