Young gender-bender

Usage examples of tomboy.

It reminds me of when I first crossed into the otherworld with Mumbo, when everything was still so marvelous and I was just a little tomboy of a girl, my ball-shaped companion rolling along at my side, propelling herself with her long spindly limbs.

He wondered if Billie would stay a tomboy long or if the pressure of society would force her to conform.

With her tall, slim figure and long, swirled-up hair, it was hard to believe that Gamay had been a tomboy, running with a gang of boys, building tree houses, playing baseball in the streets of Racine.

Maida and Zia, the neighborhood tomboys who claimed to live in the branches of the old elm tree behind the house.

We grew up together and went to art school at the same time, and Butchy was my best friend when we were both at the tomboy age.

Like every other tomboy, Idabel was mean, just gut-mean: the haircut man in Noon City sure had her number.

Just aft of where Tombstone and Tomboy were sitting--a fifty-yard-line seat if ever there was one, he thought--two lines of deck personnel were busily erecting the crash barricade, a horizontal ladder of wire and fabric strips designed to stop an aircraft that, for whatever reason, could not make a normal arrested landing.

But, except for the two neutered women, and the mountain tomboy with the two knives, none of them were anything like that.

So Teres was a tomboy far back as anyone ever noticed, and it amused Malchion to encourage her mimicry of himself and his companions.

Aunt Alexandra Finch, especially, accuses Atticus of letting the children run wild and encouraging Scout to turn into an incorrigible tomboy.

Anse knew that Noelle had grown up in West Virginia, but he had a strong suspicion she did not and never had shared any of Gaylynn's tomboy proclivities.