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Example sentences for "girl like"

  • She's been in and out of my house with my girl like one of my own children, and I won't send her father to jail if I can help it.

  • She wished to be very, very reasonable; very, very just; it was the only thing with a girl like Louise; perhaps with any girl.

  • But she sometimes struck me as a person that one might be easily unjust to, for that very reason; I suppose she has the fascination that a proud girl has for a girl like Louise.

  • In the first place he had never known a girl like Christina, so beautiful, so perfect physically, so incisive mentally, so full of a fine artistic perception.

  • If life had only given him a girl like Frieda--so young, so beautiful!

  • Could he substitute her for a girl like Angela?

  • He had sworn there was never another girl like her in all the world and yet, at that very time, he was apparently paying court to this woman if nothing worse.

  • It's great to have a girl like you to confide in," he said.

  • At least, things you'd want to tell a girl like you.

  • How can a respectable young man want to marry a girl like you, I'd like to know?

  • A wife for Julian--He might have searched the world over to find a girl like that!

  • Luckier than he knew, to win a girl like that--sweet and sensible and poor!

  • A girl like that--one in a thousand--right before him, every day for over a week now!

  • And it suddenly struck him that a rich young fellow would be lucky to marry a girl like that.

  • I've no business to interfere with a girl like Mary.

  • I'm not fit to ask a girl like you to marry me, I know that.

  • As you say, the cow country is no place for a girl like you.

  • Then she went on with a swift change of tone, "Don't you see that a--a girl like me has got to know plenty of fellows?

  • You have been very good to me, and you are going to do more for me than ever was done to a girl like me before, but sooner than meet them I would run away again as I did from Melville Gardens.

  • Yes, of course, I can quite understand that a gentleman like you would be a bit disgusted to find a likeness between your son and a girl like me, for I suppose he told you all about me?

  • I think much less of Aubrey that he should carry on a clandestine correspondence with a girl like you.

  • It is very delightful, when all is sunny and bright, but in a great emergency like this it is trying for all parties when a girl’s mother is only, so to speak, a girl like herself.

  • But these were not enough in the case of a girl like Bee.

  • What was the use of telling a girl like that--all flushed with beauty and vanity, and gay expectation--about his having a house to build?

  • That's a girl like a--whatever there is that means the noblest sort of woman, and I'm not sure it is a queen!

  • It was a silly thing for a girl like me to wear; it had a blue ribbon run in the hem of the hood, and a bow and long blue ends behind.

  • I don't know what I'm going to do with a girl like you.

  • I wish I could advise you to stay, but this is a rough town for a girl like you.

  • As long as men are men--what have I that can possibly, possibly compete with a girl like 'Little Sister'?

  • But you shan't wear those uniforms--for then you wouldn't be a girl like me.

  • All a girl like me can do is just want big things!

  • Ought not a girl like me have a companion?

  • How could a girl like Gloria, with all of her surety of her own decisions, understand a man like King?

  • He must fight to get his strength back, to get on his feet again, to save her from such toil as was no woman's work in the world, certainly never the work for a girl like Gloria.

  • How could a man like Mark King quite understand a girl like Gloria?

  • And then he railed out against conditions that could make you undergo so much hardship, and said he'd just love to give a girl like you a good home that you could keep neat and clean and in apple-pie order.

  • Somehow the longer it went on the more foolish it seemed for a girl like me to be in partnership with that old money-shark, and I was ashamed.

  • You see, a feller that trades as much as I do in all sorts of things is calculated to know the drift of the market better, maybe, than a girl like you.

  • Oh, I wonder if you know how a girl like me sometimes longs and longs for a real mother!

  • He was good to me always; a girl like me couldn't have had a better father; and I don't know how to live in this world without him.

  • Only I can't be bossed by a girl like you.

  • A girl like me 'ain't got the right to complain to no man, much less to one like you.

  • He wants to take me back to a home of my own and peace, where life can't look to a girl like a devil with horns.

  • The court does not want to have to deal too harshly with a girl like you.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "girl like" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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