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How to use schoolgirl in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun, verb

Schoolgirl means a girl attending school. Example: “That he married the wrong sister (as is sometimes suggested) is scarcely a feasible explanation, for Mary was hardly more than a schoolgirl when Dickens first came into the Hogarth family.”

Examples of schoolgirl by meaning

nounA girl attending school.

  • That he married the wrong sister (as is sometimes suggested) is scarcely a feasible explanation, for Mary was hardly more than a schoolgirl when Dickens first came into the Hogarth family.1975, John Greaves, Dickens at Doughty Street, page 33
  • Lydia had been on the phone a lot lately, off whispering in a corner, like a schoolgirl with a secret crush.2006, Porter Shreve, Drives Like a Dream
  • “Grotesque” is full of schoolgirls in long socks but blanchingly free of cuteness, a combination we might call Uh-Oh Kitty.2007 April 15, Sophie Harrison, “Memoirs of a Geisha’s Sister”, in The New York Times

verbTo restrain in a schoolgirl pin.

  • Victoria & Nidia beat Stratus & Kim in 3:45 when Victoria schoolgirled Kim.2004, Wrestling Observer Newsletter, page 57
  • She tags herself in only to get schoolgirled for the pin.2017, James Dixon, Arnold Furious, Bob Dahlstrom, The Raw Files: 2001, page 121

More sentences with schoolgirl

  • At puberty he began to worship an occasional schoolgirl from afar, like most middle-class boys.2022, James Brabazon, Albert Schweitzer: A Biography, Second Edition, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry counterdogmatic
  • Kaitlyn hits a snap suplex and follows up with a schoolgirl pin for a two count.2013, Trijcomm, “Kaitlyn defeats Tamina Snuka with a spear.”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet). From the entry schoolgirl pin
  • Bernard Tynan had used witchwork to lure a young schoolgirl into his house, where he’d murdered her.2012, Laura Powell, chapter 2, in Burn Mark, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry witchwork
  • She was the innocent schoolgirl, all buttoned up in ribbons and bows.2007, Elaine Balliet, Blue, page 212. From the entry kneehigh
  • And Craig couldn't help it — he started giggling like a schoolgirl.2007, Bryan Smith, The Freakshow. From the entry serial killer glasses
  • There I was heckin' around me bedroom like a schoolgirl — one shoe on me.2003, Billy Roche, The Cavalcaders, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry heckin'
  • If you aren't interested in reading about schoolgirl pins, face-sitting, smothering then please don't read this.1997, cactus...@mailmasher.com, “REPOST: My Friend Tanya (ff,nc,smothering,face-sitting,schoolgirl pins)”, in alt.sex.fetish.wrestling…. From the entry schoolgirl pin
  • Hugh kissed her and Abby felt as young and tremulous as a schoolgirl.1958, Jean Stafford, “The Children’s Game”, in The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, published…. From the entry auroral
  • And I needed to get my schoolgirl crush under control.2019, Emma Lea, A Royal Enticement. From the entry crush
  • Why don't you go and talk to him?" She faddled around, blushing like a schoolgirl and saying she couldn't possibly.2017, M.J. Trow, chapter 11, in The Island. From the entry faddle
  • The magical girl starts out as a typical schoolgirl.2013, Christopher Hart, Magical Characters, Watson-Guptill Publications, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry magical girl
  • No schoolgirl passed their observation-posts more flushingly than did Mrs.1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, page 243. From the entry flushingly
  • Includes a selling knickers to a burusera shop scene, a hilariously cheap “disco” set, but not enough cumsoaked schoolgirls for this reviewer.2015, Clive Davies, Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won't Write about, SCB Distributors, →ISBN. From the entry burusera
  • First you thought I was a French schoolgirl, and mademoiselled me all over the place, and tonight I look different from the ‘girl’ in chausses you met this afternoon.1987, Carol Thurston, Flair, London: Pan Books, published 1989, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry mademoiselle
  • "I was shocked to see girls this young wearing the cloak," says the author, who encountered this group of schoolgirls near Qatif oasis in the Eastern Province.1987 October, Marianne Alireza, “Women of Saudi Arabia”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 438. From the entry Eastern Province
  • Schoolgirls are a perennial bloom in Japanese erotology, because of their distinctive uniforms, middy blouses, pleated skirts and black stockings, clearly designed by Colette's first husband.1971, Angela Carter, “Once More into the Mangle”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 300. From the entry middy blouse

Meaning of schoolgirl

  1. noun A girl attending school.
  2. verb To restrain in a schoolgirl pin.

Full definition of schoolgirl

Questions about schoolgirl in a sentence

How do you use schoolgirl in a sentence?
Schoolgirl is used as a noun and verb. For example: “That he married the wrong sister (as is sometimes suggested) is scarcely a feasible explanation, for Mary was hardly more than a schoolgirl when Dickens first came into the Hogarth family.”
What is a short sentence with schoolgirl?
“The magical girl starts out as a typical schoolgirl.”
What does schoolgirl mean?
Schoolgirl means a girl attending school.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: schoolgirl (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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