girlfriend
or girl friend
a frequent or favorite female companion; sweetheart.
a female friend.
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How to use girlfriend in a sentence
My girlfriend eventually extricated us from the conversation and brought me to the back patio where we got a table.
He greets viewers and introduces us to his girlfriend, Annachiara Zoppas, who lies on a couch reading Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl.
Vittorio Brumotti Serves Vigilante Justice on a Bike | Tom Vanderbilt | September 15, 2020 | Outside OnlineShe went directly to their female support staff and to their girlfriends and wives before she even came in for her meetings.
‘How I Built This’ host Guy Raz on insights from some of the world’s most famous entrepreneurs | Rachel King | September 15, 2020 | FortuneAs far as he’s concerned, that means she doesn’t really exist — which means it’s fine for him to string her along even though he has a girlfriend and never actually try to kiss her.
The true love story in Elif Batuman’s The Idiot is a love affair with language | Constance Grady | September 11, 2020 | VoxHe admitted during sentencing that he’d been smoking meth all day with his buddy and thought I was a guy who had been hitting on his girlfriend earlier that night.
The phone is apparently the one he took from his girlfriend after shooting her outside Baltimore and heading for New York.
Thus begins an episode of The Mindy Project centered around a guy trying to have butt sex with his girlfriend.
Year of the Butt: How the Booty Changed the World in 2014 | Kevin Fallon | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAccording to the friend, Brinsley rang his ex-girlfriend, an Air Force reservist named Shaneka Thompson, to no avail.
He had shot and wounded his ex-girlfriend early that morning in Baltimore and headed for his native Brooklyn.
He had by that point shot his ex-girlfriend and he had to know the police were looking for him.
Marcus got suspended from school and fought with his dad and wondered if he was good enough for his kick-ass girlfriend.
Little Brother | Cory DoctorowThere was one, Cliff Boll, who could neither read nor write so he got several of us to write his letters to his girlfriend.
The Biography of a Rabbit | Roy BensonLast time, he took me to the school yard and showed me you and your girlfriend.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town | Cory DoctorowOne morning she had brought her daughter to the China department in order to select a wedding-present for a girlfriend.
Mrs. Thompson | William Babington MaxwellWhat I found in the cave was the body of my first girlfriend.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town | Cory Doctorow
British Dictionary definitions for girlfriend
/ (ˈɡɜːlˌfrɛnd) /
a female friend with whom a man or boy is romantically or sexually involved; sweetheart
any female friend
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