Example sentences for: lass

How can you use “lass” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The camera pans down the occupied seats, to alight upon a fresh-scrubbed English lass, who stands up and lets the peevish boy sit down, much to his self-satisfied delight.

  • "Oh, I'm king up here, lass," says Postlethwaite, looking more leathery and Asiatic than ever, like the mummified fossil of some early man.

  • Similarly, the posh long “a” in grass (and indeed class ) was originally an affectation by courtiers in imitation of George IV: until then everyone in the country had pronounced class to rhyme with lass .

  • But the lady's heroic deed was told and sung: she became Kate Barlass--the lass who barred the door.

  • Before you decry the faster lifestyle of us all, I will add that I have been a night owl since I was a wee lass and this is nothing different.


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