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Example sentences for "girls were"

  • Girls were at one time employed in lacquering gas fixtures on William street, New York; but they were dismissed, because they did not prove steady and efficient workers.

  • She said in the bakery where she stood, girls were required, not only to wait on customers, but wash the counters, shelves, and windows of the store.

  • A large number of girls were at work, who receive average wages of $4 per week.

  • The food, the speeches in her eulogy, the vast banquet hall, were all impressive, but it was only when some little French girls were allowed to come in and present Linda with flowers that she really smiled naturally.

  • There was still hope that the girls were alive.

  • Illustration: The room we girls were to occupy was a great square chamber with a large window looking on a cobbled street.

  • The three of us girls were to occupy one section, two below and one above, lots to be cast how we were to dispose ourselves.

  • The room we girls were to occupy was a great square chamber with a large window looking out on a cobbled street.

  • Central Queensland, where, according to Roth, girls were disposed of sometimes by the camp council, but by agreement with the family.

  • So in the tribes described by Howitt and his correspondents (chiefly referring to Victoria, New South Wales, and South territory of South Australia) girls were as a rule promised in infancy, and these engagements were kept.

  • Girls were betrothed in infancy by their mothers amongst the Wakelbura.

  • Victoria) girls were exchanged in infancy by the elder brother.

  • Little girls were feeding the ruling machines, and a few older ones were counting and folding the foolscap paper; 18 girls were employed.

  • About 30 or 40 girls were employed at this.

  • Girls were no cheaper than the boys were, and were introduced solely on account of being better workers.

  • It got about that some real American girls were coming.

  • When the boys heard that the hut was being shelled and the girls were ordered to leave they poured in to tell them how much they would miss them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but when they came; cannot allow; door life; each joint; found native; girls were; gold brick; great show; impartial suffrage; industrial training; molten rock; personal interview; population concentrated; rendered more; shall confine; take him; virtuous woman; weather conditions; whereupon they; will raise; will rise; with you