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Tomboy in sentence

26 examples of Tomboy in a sentence

They've been a problem for me since as far back as I can remember, first when I was just a little baby tomboy and then later as a masculine-appearing, predominantly estrogen-based organism.
She's a self-identified tomboy.
But here's the thing: I'm raising a little girl, and she has a little tomboy in her, which by the way is a terrible thing to call a girl.
But do you know how much grief she's going to take in her life for having a little tomboy in her? Zero.
Even though I grew up in a small farm town in Georgia, very much a tomboy, I never questioned that I was a female.
Girl 1: Yeah, my character is usually a tomboy.
Girl 6: Like, if you were a girl and you were really adventurous and a real big tomboy, you would think that girls' games were kinda sissy.
there is no one is girly and one is tomboy (Ashley is taller than Mary-Kate though) and their boyfriends aren't even French, so that is bad because they are faking the accents.
At least in the 1999 movie the character they call "Fanny Price" is firmly established as rebellious tomboy who is too clever for her own good.
Well done melodrama that tells the story of Sally, tomboy dancer in the circus, raised by sideshow performer McGargle (played by W.C. Fields), he of the top hat, little mustache, checkered pants, and proficiency as juggler, pickpocket, and runner of carnival con games like Three Card Monte and the Old Shell Game.
Can the new kid, a tomboy (Brie Larson) and a runaway (Cody Linley) stop big business from destroying these owls' home?
Labored comedy has I.R.S. agent Tony Randall investigating eccentric farm family in Maryland who have never paid their taxes; Debbie Reynolds is the tomboy farmer's daughter who puts the squeeze on the not-so-disinterested tax-man.
Going beyond Keira, which in this movie is a real tomboy, pretty much different from the lovely action figure we're used to see, Mickey Rourke is back, with his usual slap-throwing face and his potent body.
Two bratty brothers and their older, more sensible tomboy sister (a sweetly feisty performance by cute, pigtailed future "Different Strokes" sitcom star Dana Plato) go venturing into the treacherous marsh to check out if the creature of local legend may be in fact a real live being.
I saw this movie as a teenager and immediately identified with Reese Witherspoon's portrayal of Dani Trant, a 14-year-old tomboy in rural Louisiana circa 1957.
I imagine the character of Millie as quieter, less feminine than Davis, with maybe a touch of the tomboy.
At the apex is Marie, a serious, short and lean tomboy with a Belmondo-like facial structure.
Heck, Amy wasn't even a tomboy.
I'm am unbelievably furious the soundtrack is unavailable!!!! Meredith Salenger is captivating as Natty, an undaunted tomboy who runs away (from an unbearable landlady) cross-country to find her dad, who is logging in the wilderness of Washington State!
Wimpy Derek Cowley (the likable Trevor Duke), his scrappy tomboy best friend Samantha "Sam" Marche (an appealingly spunky performance by Kimberly J. Brown), and four of Derek's obnoxious college classmates go to a remote cabin in the woods owned by Derek's stepfather to party hearty.
Scrappy and willful tomboy Peppermint Patty invites herself and several of her friends over for a Thanksgiving feast at Charlie Brown's house.
Not sure whether it was the tomboy aspect, or the fact that she had a wolf for a best friend, but it was a definite childhood favorite.
Derek's friend Sam, a leather wearing tomboy on a motorcycle, on whom he has a not-so-secret crush, is talked into going along.
Guinevere is some tomboy out fighting, Arthur is some frat boy idiot and Lancelot is some angry boy.
For your highnesses must know that, going a few days back to kiss her hands and receive her benediction, approbation, and permission for this third sally, I found her altogether a different being from the one I sought; I found her enchanted and changed from a princess into a peasant, from fair to foul, from an angel into a devil, from fragrant to pestiferous, from refined to clownish, from a dignified lady into a jumping tomboy, and, in a word, from Dulcinea del Toboso into a coarse Sayago wench."
She is what we call in England a tomboy, with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of traditions.