How to Use girlboss in a Sentence

girlboss

noun

• This is a show that understands that the girlboss moment is long past.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
• Unlike the always-hustling girlboss, the girlies do not dream of labor.
  — Iva Dixit, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• In didn’t come out until 2013, but the girlboss was already in the ether.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2024
• Not even the holidays can stop a girlboss from girlbossing too close to the Yule log.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 25 Dec. 2022
• Scratch a girlboss, find a monster is a common revelation in these shows.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
• If #girlboss were a dress—minus the negative connotations—this would be that dress.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 13 Dec. 2023
• Eh … Lively plays a girlboss named Carol who flies planes and does not like Hal’s (Reynolds) antics one bit.
  — Lizzie Logan, Vulture, 2 May 2025
• Esme forgoes a generic entreaty at the feet of her girlboss and instead makes a cunning personal plea for better judgment from her mentor.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
• Call Her Alex is a portrait of a woman packaging herself as a girlboss Howard Stern.
  — Rebecca Jennings, Vulture, 9 June 2025
• So how is the girlboss standing before us today, like Jesus on Easter Sunday?
  — Jessa Crispin, Air Mail, 11 Oct. 2025
• Dorothy Lyon, like Wendy, is a Mary Sue with all the unfortunate girlboss tropes on display.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Blunt stars as our whistleblower/window into all the excess, a Gulf Coast girlboss named Liza Drake.
  — EW.com, 27 Oct. 2023
• In Babygirl, the girlboss isn’t being vilified or even critiqued, but explored with a canny interest.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Toxic, Chappell Roan-belting girlboss… or alien among us sent to annihilate all of living Earth?
  — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2025
• 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 almost every notable girlboss tumbled out of the C-suite in rapid succession in June 2020.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 July 2023
• This passive-aggressive girlboss duel never rises to the level of actual dramatic stakes.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• The writing for Isla doesn’t get better as the season goes on, with the character coming across like a holdover from the early 2010s girlboss era.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
• Her defiance of these obstacles is dramatized on familiar girlboss terms, entangled with some strained agricultural metaphors.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• Rebounding after a divorce, Mavis’ girlboss pal Marley (Tasha Smith) explores new frontiers of sexuality.
  — Time, 13 July 2023
• 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
• In the special, Robinson brings her raw and unfiltered perspective to topics including the myths and realities of being a girlboss, the perils of wearing a thong, and the real reason that women start book clubs and launch businesses on Etsy.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2025
• 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
• Vogue recently spoke to Walker about letting Tom Wolfe guide her expectations of present-day digital media, her favorite blog she’s ever written, the ghostly specter of the girlboss, and attempting to resist universalizing in her writing.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 22 May 2025