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Example sentences for "girlishly"

Lexicographically close words:
girlfriend; girlhood; girlie; girlies; girlish; girlishness; girls; girn; girning; giro
  1. The light of the blaze was on her face, appealingly soft and girlishly sweet.

  2. There were some qualms of uneasiness in her breast that hour, some upbraidings of conscience for treason to Major King, of whom she had been girlishly fond, girlishly proud, womanly selfish.

  3. Sophie heeded them not; she ran girlishly up the steps to where the executioner was leaning on his axe.

  4. He had dropped behind Du Barry for a moment to tie up his bootlace, and Julie, running girlishly along the moonlit path, bumped violently into his arched back.

  5. But, glancing again and again at Mollie June, girlishly imperious and intent, he could not as yet muster his brutality for what he saw the next move in his game must be.

  6. She went to her own door, however, and laughed girlishly as he stepped into the room, mopping his moist forehead.

  7. Miss Gerald has never been at the island, you see, and she is girlishly eager to go ashore.

  8. Oswin thought he had never before seen her look so girlishly lovely.

  9. That one cannot for any considerable number of years go on being youthful, girlishly handsome, and precocious, seems on consideration to be a statement as worthy of credit as the famous syllogistic conclusion, "Socrates was mortal.

  10. Because she had heard disloyal talk from her father's lips, she had become impetuously, girlishly loyal to the United States.

  11. Magsie, who was now seated opposite him, clasped her hands girlishly about her knees.

  12. Clementina made a warning yet girlishly mirthful gesture, again caught his hand, drew him quickly to the French window, and slipped through it with him into the garden, where they were quickly lost in the shadows of a ceanothus hedge.

  13. Then placing both her hands still girlishly on her slim waist and curtseying grotesquely before him, she said: "'Lige Curtis!

  14. But on the whole she had felt more girlishly happy and ebullient than since her sister had gone her own way and left a heavy burden for young shoulders behind her.

  15. She felt happy and excited, her fine almost severe face far more girlishly alive than when she had told her story, provocatively dry, to Flora Thangue.

  16. The Tsarina, looking fair and fresh and young, bowed her acknowledgments to right and left, smiling as she did so, while the Grand Duchess Xenia laughed girlishly at the sparkling pageant.

  17. A dark, almost a girlishly handsome fellow, well below medium height--the rod beside him showed five feet four inches.

  18. Pale, girlishly handsome face; long, black hair to the base of his neck.

  19. She was not crying but her magnificent eyes swam in a sort of luminous ether and Herrick had never seen her so girlishly helpless.

  20. Several, as girlishly demure as that, I fancy," asserted the young man with confidence.

  21. I 'll go and talk with Cook"--and Jane hurried away, looking as girlishly eager as Shirley herself.

  22. Her look was so girlishly sympathetic and inviting, Peter could hardly be blamed for finding a ray of comfort in it, although he only said stoutly: "That would n't be fair.

  23. Mrs. Fox later, coming up behind Susan on the porch, and slipping an arm girlishly about her waist.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "girlishly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.