How to Use girlboss in a Sentence

girlboss

noun
Definition of girlbossnext
  • Not even the holidays can stop a girlboss from girlbossing too close to the Yule log.
    — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Unlike the always-hustling girlboss, the girlies do not dream of labor.
    — Iva Dixit, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Although recent years have been pink-heavy, thanks to the influence of The Wing, Glossier, and all those 2010s girlboss brands, peach has its own niche appeal.
    — Katy Kelleher, refinery29.com, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Blunt stars as our whistleblower/window into all the excess, a Gulf Coast girlboss named Liza Drake.
    — EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
  • But almost every notable girlboss tumbled out of the C-suite in rapid succession in June 2020.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 July 2023
  • If #girlboss were a dress—minus the negative connotations—this would be that dress.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The first was about a dubious girlboss at the head of a fictional media company, one not unlike BuzzFeed.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2022
  • The broad idea of a girlboss is in need of reinvention, not a funeral—one that is cognizant of its drawbacks but acknowledges its power and the need for an alternative path.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 19 June 2024
  • But Birgitte’s resignation doesn’t satisfy, not as a narrative of a girlboss learning her limits nor as a beloved politician’s return to form.
    — Kylie Warner, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Whether this makes the movie an innately feminist work or, as some detractors have claimed, a superficial girlboss narrative is certainly open to debate.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Many of these uncomfortable ideas are embodied in Merwyn, a sort of medieval-fantasy girlboss whose reaction to her own oppression is to turn around and oppress others even harder.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But Do Revenge quickly revealed itself to be deeper than previous attempts — precisely because the Latina lead challenges so much of what we are taught from teen movies, including the validity of the girlboss.
    — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Rebounding after a divorce, Mavis’ girlboss pal Marley (Tasha Smith) explores new frontiers of sexuality.
    — Time, 13 July 2023
  • Her defiance of these obstacles is dramatized on familiar girlboss terms, entangled with some strained agricultural metaphors.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 July 2024
  • Bellugi gives a sufficiently winsome performance to paper over the essential dullness of her character, as Teresa pivots from noble martyr to inspiring leader, while her female peers are largely conceived in cheery girlboss shorthand.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024

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