How to use she in a sentence
40 example sentences · pronoun, noun, verb
She means the female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied. Example: “I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.”
Examples of she by meaning
pronounThe female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
- I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.
- After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.
- She seems a clever girl, your Isabel.
pronounA ship or boat.
- She could do forty knots in good weather.
- She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
- The tanker is 25 years old but she is still very seaworthy.
pronounA country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
- She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
pronounA thing, especially a machine or other object, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
- She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.
- Prodigal in everything, summer spreads her blessings with lavish unconcern, and waving her magic wand across the landscape of the world, she bids the sons of men to enter in and possess.1928, The Journal of the American Dental Association, page 765
- Then she lurched forward at terrific speed.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN
pronounThe Catholic Church.
- She recognizes today’s questions and challenges as the current setting in which to carry out her particular vocation of listening, dialogue and service, and of being responsive to everything concerning the lives of contemporary men and women.2026, Pope Leo XIV, chapter 1, in Magnifica humanitas
nounA female.
- Pat is definitely a she.
- “They were all hairy-faced bulls but one,” he said, “and that one was a she, lighter in color even than this stranger,” and he chucked a thumb at Tarzan.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 199
- I’d feel it in my fingertips if he came near me.” “It might be a ‘she’,” I suggested.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 12
verbTo refer to (someone) using she/her pronouns.
- In his conversation with the woman, Ari would 'he' himself using the masculine pronoun and she would reply by consistently 'sheing' him.2023 December 7, Laura L. Paterson, The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN
More sentences with she
- She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.From the entry book
- She bartered a bonsai for one of the rare books in my library.From the entry barter
- Mary decided to have an abortion because she was too young to raise a baby.From the entry abortion
- She believes it is important to keep abreast of new scientific developments.From the entry abreast
- The professor stopped her lecture abruptly when she noticed someone fall off their seat.From the entry abruptly
- She speaks English, French, and German. English is her first language.From the entry english
- She was extremely accommodating when it came to changing her schedule.From the entry accommodating
- He died a little inside each time she refused to speak to him.From the entry die
- Her birth father left when she was a baby; she was raised by her mother and stepfather.From the entry birth
- She offered him an apple and an orange; he took (the) one and left the other.From the entry one
- She's studying medicine at university because she wants to be a doctor in the future.From the entry medicine
- Did you hear what she said about my outfit? She kind of clocked me.From the entry clock
- Very few did she have not to go there, did she?From the entry few
- She did it all on her own like a big girl.From the entry big
- Seeing how ill she was, we sent for a doctor at once.From the entry send
- She took the best men with her and left the rest to garrison the city.From the entry take
- You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not.From the entry but
- The note I think he said she wrote is nowhere to be found.From the entry say
- I can't talk to her: she is too busy SMSing her friends.From the entry SMS
- Using some tweezers, she worked the bee sting out of her hand.From the entry work
- She was listening to the radio when he knocked on the door.From the entry radio
- She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.From the entry gas
- She loved my photos of the kids playing with the dogs.From the entry love
- She had to accelerate her work pace to meet the deadline.From the entry accelerate
- She spoke with a strong accent that betrayed her southern roots.From the entry accent
Meaning of she
- pronoun The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
- pronoun A ship or boat.
- pronoun A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
Questions about she in a sentence
- How do you use she in a sentence?
- She is used as a pronoun, noun and verb. For example: “I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.”
- What is a short sentence with she?
- “Pat is definitely a she.”
- What does she mean?
- She means the female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: she (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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