tomboy

Example Sentences

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"I thought I was the tomboy, the only girl that played in the football team, then this little upstart popped up," Westbury tells BBC Sport.

From BBC • May 20, 2025

Da Brat said she had been fortunate to have the producer Jermaine Dupri as a mentor who never tried to change her tomboy image during the height of her career.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024

Ever the curious tomboy, I asked, “Is that an old temple?”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

He felt like saying aloud what was going on would lock his whole family into a future—solidify that, no, his kid was not just a tomboy, and this was not just a phase.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2023

The two aging men saw her through her loneliest and most difficult hours, through the malignant limbo of turning from a howling tomboy into a young woman.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee