girlhood

Example Sentences

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“Yellowjackets” performs a similar trick: It sneaks a thoughtful excavation of teenage girlhood and middle-aged floundering into its genre pleasures.

From New York Times

In the before times, the mall served as girlhood's town square and its temple, selling all the trappings of unrealistic beauty standards alongside distracting games, scented candles and junk food.

From Salon

The star was the collection’s motif, seen on stretch dresses and pleated denim mini skirts worn with knee socks — caught somewhere between girlhood and the grownup world.

From Seattle Times

So, I can see why it is appropriate to proclaim that the survivors of girlhood run the world.

From Salon

Here are four poetry books we recommend this week, on faith as a Muslim in America, the disarray of the pandemic, a Kentucky girlhood and the spontaneous relationship people have with the world →

From New York Times