working girl

Example Sentences

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Not funny enough to be a stand-up comic or sit-down humorist, I did piecemeal assignments about being a single working girl for women's magazines.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2022

"With extensions becoming more accessible to the everyday working girl, clients feel safer taking the plunge into a shorter haircut."

From Fox News • Sep. 1, 2021

Parents who could afford it employed wet-nurses - a respectable profession for the working girl, and an early casualty of Liebig's invention.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2017

The song doesn't just flaunt Sadie's temperament but connects it to her predicament, thus building sympathy for a character who comes off like an old Hollywood cliché of a working girl.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2016

Joan Crawford made a specialty of the working girl role, in movies like Sadie McKee and Dancing Lady, and also did the heiress in Love on the Run and I Live My Life.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times