Examples of girlfriend in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web While investigating the East Harry Street apartment shooting, police say detectives learned that Robert’s mother had allegedly threatened her ex-husband and his current girlfriend with a gun earlier this year. Emily Palmer, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024 More than 250 of the cases dismissed since May included charges of domestic violence assault, such as men allegedly punching, kicking or threatening to kill their wives or girlfriends. Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica, 13 Oct. 2024 Theo Lengyel, a founding member of the avant-garde jazz-metal group Mr. Bungle, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of his girlfriend in December 2023. Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2024 Amazon has removed from its site a memoir that alleges that hip-hop mogul Sean Combs physically abused his longtime girlfriend Kim Porter, whose untimely death in 2018 at age 47 has been the source of conspiracies. Janelle Griffith, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for girlfriend 

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“Girlfriend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/girlfriend. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.

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