How To Use Tomboy In A Sentence
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I've known Chastity since she was young, and this girl was a total tomboy.
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The first obvious difference from the manga is in the appearance of the central character, Deunan, who in the manga is more-or-less a regular self-capable woman with an unusual skill for violence and mayhem, but who in the anime has become a short-haired tomboy whose fighting skills ascend to the level of gravity-defying superpowers, as she is capable of backflipping over enemy gunfire in slow-motion.
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It's occurring to me that if I were a kid, I'd be considered something of a tomboy.
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Lots of seven to 10-year-olds are tomboys, into male-style adventure.
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I am not a girly girl and am always up for a tomboy adventure
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I like to mix tomboy pieces with vintage, and high-end with high street.
Times, Sunday Times
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“Kid McCoy was supposed to be an irreclaimable tomboy, but in this crucial moment the eternal feminine came triumphantly to the fore.”
Dear Pen Pal
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Growing up, I was quite the tomboy, wearing my hair real short, playing boys' parts in musicals, and swimming in nothing but a pair of cut-offs well past when I should have.
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Models strutted the catwalk wearing patched trousers and men's shirts, turquoise headbands and striped jumpers, which combined to illustrate the girl's tomboy side.
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She said: 'I was a real tomboy.
The Sun
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Bravely and unselfconsciously, this generous actress looks middle-aged, yet with that gangly tomboyish essence that allows her to play young without resorting to cosmetic artifice or girly-girl coyness.
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She is like her dad in that she loves football - a real little tomboy.
The Sun
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It sounds stupid, but I wanted to show him I could be a girl too, not just a tomboy.
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In many ways she was a real tomboy and the teachers loved her.
The Sun
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She confesses to wearing an occasional daub of men's cologne so as to seem tomboyish and to using masking tape at night to flatten her bouncy curls.
The Scary Future, the Embarrassing Past
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She was a gauche tomboy from the projects, in clumpy boots and combats.
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To balance the tomboy elements in her look, she highlights her femininity and her rocker edge through subtle sparkle by implementing marcasite rings and brooches and clothing with stud embellishments into her wardrobe.
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As founding Peas, me, Apl, and Will had been tight since way back, and in walked this stranger from Hacienda Heights who fit in like some long-lost relative, and she was sexy without being catty, confident without being arrogant, strong without being over-domineering, and tomboyish without losing her femininity.
Fallin’ Up
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For several years during her girlhood, Bess was a tomboy in a house full of brothers.
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I heard one girl called her a 'tomboy'.
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It would be fair to describe Chloe as a tomboy and I think the activities Scouts do will suit her.
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His daughter is a saucy tomboy.
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As a tomboy youngster, it was one of my great regrets that I could not manage to generate a piercing rallying call to assemble my pals for a spot of light tree-climbing or scrumping.
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The tomboy lace-ups are not an obvious shade, but green.
Times, Sunday Times
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Brit rolled her eyes, never quite understanding her sister's tomboyish streak.
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When she was little, she wanted to be a boy, like so many girls brought up in the 1950s with the tomboys Jo in Little Women and George in The Famous Five as role models.
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She recalled: 'I was a real tomboy at school.
The Sun
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Kylie was to audition for the role of a tomboy mechanic called Charlene Mitchell, in a new soap called Neighbours.
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I used to play in the woods, climb trees and make forts: tomboy stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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Betty admits to being a tomboy and says she found break times more fun playing boys' games.
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I was too much of a tomboy, the gal that all the guys loved.
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She is just trying to survive her first season in the haut ton of Regency England and retain the tomboy, bluestocking identity her brothers had fostered in her though out her childhood.
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Summer is a great time for tomboys, with all that tree-climbing and outdoor sport.
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Tailored replica kits, specially-designed leisure wear and even lingerie are all catering for the female fan base and dispelling the myth that girls who like sport are tomboys with short hair who don't like being feminine.
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The 'Tomboys' had their hair styled in "Rockabilly" quiffs and wore tailored trouser suits, Trilby's, and winkle-picker style, pointy-toe lace-ups.
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As a nipper she was academically disenchanted, but once she got a taste of stardom, the wagging tomboy became the perfect teen.
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Wolfe's cast brings a buoyant freshness to the play: Preston's innocent, tomboyish Miranda; Ellis's balletically beautiful Ariel, Bougere's feral poignancy.
Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
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I think she's always been a bit of a tomboy at heart.
Times, Sunday Times
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Girly, feminine and mostly floral, this season one particular item of clothing will have tomboys quaking in their boots: the dress.
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Although busy with her own friends and work, Lillian took the time to listen to the trials of a not-so-eager kindergartener, a defiant tomboy, an awkward adolescent and a rebellious college student.
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Bravely and unselfconsciously, this generous actress looks middle-aged, yet with that gangly tomboyish essence that allows her to play young without resorting to cosmetic artifice or girly-girl coyness.
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Older collections sometimes contain small, very pale, transparent green fluorite octahedra from the Tomboy vein.
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I was a tomboy, a horrible dresser, a fashion disaster as a child, and I really didn't care.
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It's a really hard thing for a girl to do, especially if you're not a tomboy.
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He thought it was such an unwomanly, tomboy thing.
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In fact, as a tomboy, I had every intention of following in her footsteps.
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The eldest of three children, she had two brothers and was a regular tomboy, but always envisioned herself as a dancer.
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Research on tomboys suggests that most do not reject traditionally female activities but rather embrace traditionally male ones.
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In short, my sister is a tomboy / hellcat.
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I used to play in the woods, climb trees and make forts: tomboy stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scout herself is a bit of a tomboy and would much rather play outside in overalls than wear frilly dresses, much to her aunt's dismay.
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I was quite the tomboy and spent whole days climbing trees with my brothers.
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I was a bit of a tomboy and fancied myself one of the lads.
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He is irresistible to the fugitive tomboy: 'I like him!
Times, Sunday Times
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Her lithe, almost tomboyish figure was tightly enclosed in purple toreador trousers and a lilac blouse.
BLACK EAGLES
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We know that his late partner, Miles Archer, was a son of a bitch; that Spade is sleeping with Archers wife, Iva; that his tomboyish secretary, Effie Perine, is the only innocent in his life.
Spade & Archer: Summary and book reviews of Spade & Archer by Joe Gores.
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How can I persuade my tomboy daughter to wear feminine clothes?
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Until I find a rechargeable that's actually rated at 100% the VOLTAGE of a regular battery (i.e. 1. 5V and not 20% less), I'm sticking with disposables. tomboygirl
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Lily, a regular "tenter," shot up freely, grew up a real tomboy, went a bit too far, in fact, Ma said: at Honolulu, for instance, on the road to
The Bill-Toppers
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He would never consider her next to any of these girls; she was just a fun tomboy to chill with.
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Sure I may like boy things and I don't always dress like the prettiest of girls but I am not a tomboy.
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Kylie was to audition for the role of a tomboy mechanic called Charlene Mitchell, in a new soap called Neighbours.
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My athletism, my funny-not-caring-what-anybody-thinks attitude, my being a strong personality type, and just being the girl that completely fit their own interests (all the tomboyish stuff that I will always love).
AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
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This fall, you can be an S&M secretary/vamp; a '50s prom queen; a futuristic time-travel babe; a '40s lipstick-and-lace kind of a gal; a pared-down tomboy; an ethnic, fringy, upmarket hippy; a be-sequined party girl; a satin-and-fur siren; or an oversized, overshaped cross-dresser—and I've probably missed a couple of themes.
Fashion's Great Confusion
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She's suppose to be a tomboy and bluestocking with grass in her hair from reading outside,’ he teased, a grin lighting up his sun-bronzed face.
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If enabled, all notes that were open when Tomboy quit will automatically be reopened at startup.
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Peering out from behind a helmet of black hair, she is stylish but not styled, neither coquettish sex kitten nor guitar-toting tomboy.
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She was a tomboy with high-top sneakers and big dreams: She wanted to own her own home, go to college to be a nurse, have kids.
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I would say it's a little because I'm kind of a tomboy that a lot of my guy-friends say things to me that they would NEVER say to any other girl, but also I think it's just plain exhibiting privilege.
Hey Jerks
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Yes, tomboyish girls are cute, but isn't it an insult to call a woman mannish?
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As a result, my tomboy daughter has become a fan of Latin and shimmies around in sparkly silver sandals doing the cha-cha-cha annoyingly better than me.
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This fall, you can be an S&M secretary/vamp; a '50s prom queen; a futuristic time-travel babe; a '40s lipstick-and-lace kind of a gal; a pared-down tomboy; an ethnic, fringy, upmarket hippy; a be-sequined party girl; a satin-and-fur siren; or an oversized, overshaped cross-dresser—and I've probably missed a couple of themes.
Fashion's Great Confusion
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We are a culture that now cherishes our adventurous, aggressive tomboys but balks at boys who cry, nurture, and listen to chick flick soundtracks.
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Ore treatment at the Tomboy mill was by amalgamation and concentration until 1912, when cyanidization was added to the processes utilized.
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Mother's attempts at raising us as proper young girls had transformed us into disobedient tomboys.
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If a girl does not conform, she is defined as a "hoyden" or a "tomboy.
Human Traits and their Social Significance
