Lady Tal one morning at lunch, addressing the remark to Marion, and cut short in her speech by a burst of laughter from that odious tomboy of a cousin of hers (how could she endure that girl?
She had a quaint, pleasant wit, that of an experienced tomboy who views things with indifference and judges them with frivolous and benevolent skepticism.
She was no longer the big frolicsome tomboy he had known, but a bewildered despairing woman, capable of anything.
Well, you've called me a tomboy often enough, so let me be a boy for to-day.
But they don't, for a tomboy is a horrid, rough sort of creature who isn't fit to be either a boy or a girl.
She sez she is rather ashamed of it now, and that you wuld think her a bigger tomboy than ever; but all the boys at skule call her a brick, and so do I, and if she comes to see the bote race at Easter they mean to chear her.
The joy of the evening with its talk of the children in school, its sudden revelation of the womanliness of the tomboy girl, and its air of plenty and good living haunted the mind of the boy.
With a flourish and a roar at the children Freedom heaped high the plates and passed them about, the wife or the tomboy girl bringing unending fresh supplies from the kitchen.
I was still a tomboy at heart but my outlook had changed considerably; or rather, I had begun to be resigned to the fate of being a girl.
Jay-Jay knew I was a tomboy at heart and he played his cards accordingly.
To think of our wild, heedless, tomboy Charlie settling into such a steady girl!
But tomboy though she was in some respects, she had a very tender heart, and like her mother she was quick at understanding.
These included the Pandora, Black Bear, Imogene, Barstow and the towers of the two spectacular trams into Pandora--the Tomboy from Savage Basin and the Smuggler Union.
The Telluride Mines Company operated the mill up until 1956 when it was liquidated into the Idarado Mining Company, which also acquired the Tomboy Mines Company in the same year.
Chicken Little was an athletic child before the days when it was proper for little girls to be athletic, and Mrs. Morton mourned greatly over her tomboy propensities.
I hoped you wouldn't wake up until I got back," she said, throwing off her new furs and raising her little toque from her tomboy golden curls, which seemed to dance in joyful liberation.
Wherefore she was in great demand among the illustrators, who had reproduced her tomboy smile on the covers of a million magazines.
It was a queer and rather a touching thing to Philip Benoix to see this young tomboy running about the place with an infant tucked casually under her arm or across her shoulder; and to Jemima, for some reason, it was rather a shocking thing.
Tomboy Jacqueline with a needle in her hands was a sight which somehow troubled Philip even more than it amused him.
I've just been thinking what a clever woman Miss Bat was, to make such a tidy little girl out of what I used to hear called the greatest tomboy in town, and wondering what I could give the old lady.
He fell in love with me when I was a great fat-faced tomboy in the school-room, and has never thought of any one since--ridiculous man!
Why did I go clambering up into that wretched tree, like the shameful tomboy that I am?
Why did I, a very tomboy yesterday, suddenly find my playmates stupid, and hide-and-seek a bore?
I remember myself as very merry in the midst of my serious scientific friends, and I can think of no time when I was more inclined to play the tomboy than when off for a day in the woods, in quest of botanical and zoological specimens.
You've got to stop all your capers; no more camps on Sugar Creek, no more tomboy foolishness; no more general nonsense.
Lady Mary was such an obvious Tomboy that he might be pardoned for leaving her out of the question.
Your sister ceased to be a Tomboy when she fell in love.
Even if she is nearly a tomboy herself," laughed the husband, with rather a teasing air, towards his little wife.
Mother says it is high time I gave up my tomboy ways and came "out" too, because I am eighteen.
Why should you think her a tomboy because she drives cows?
Besides," continued Pauline, "she isn't a tomboyat all.
What do you suppose the Morgan Knowles would think if they saw you taking up with some tomboy girl on a farm?
To-night, it made a peculiar impression on the wild little tomboywho had been brought up without discipline or control, and the strangeness and the misery of her position overwhelmed her as with a new feeling.
With no teasing schoolboys to overhear her, she felt that here, at last, was a chance of making friends with her odd little tomboy of a cousin.
Of course it was ridiculous to worry herself about a tomboy of eleven who chose to be sulky; but it was the first time any one had refused to make friends with her, and Jill was a little hurt about it.
Now, as she looked at the rough little tomboy before her, with her elf-like face and figure, and her bright eager eyes, she had to own again to herself that a large family was a difficult thing to understand.
Phil growled and shoved the pot in my direction, keeping both eyes on Tomboy Taylor.
Even so, without her Pittsburgh stogie, Tomboy Taylor was a mighty attractive dish, and I knew that she could also be a bright and interesting conversationalist if she wanted to be.
Tomboy Taylor removed the stogie and said evenly, "Barcelona wants to see it Flying Heels, Moonbeam, and Lady Grace next month.
At this point Tomboy Taylor fished another Pittsburgh stogie out of her hundred dollar handbag, bit off the end with a quick nibble of even, pearly-white teeth, and stuffed the cigar in between the arched lips.
Tomboy Taylor had changed to a short-skirted, low-necked cocktail dress; relaxed with her eyes closed in my halluscene chair she looked lovely.
Tomboy Taylor had not come equipped with a box of Pittsburgh stogies with which to make my appreciation of beauty throw up its lunch.
I went to my little bar and refilled my highball glass because swinging through the jungle makes one thirsty, and while I was pouring I took a sly peek into Tomboy Taylor's mind.
You know very well we would rather have our tomboy than any other girl in the world, though there is no reason why you should not be graceful and charming too, in your own way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tomboy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
