Example sentences for: shirley

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

  • In a high-school class with five girl Shirleys we also had a boy named Shirley, a refugee from the blitz in England.

  • Suddenly, everybody began to look like Shirley Temple in her singing child-star days--all bouncy hair and wiggly legs, with a tiny dress in the middle--no waist, no breasts, no hips, and pale lipstick went with it.

  • Critics applaud performances by Rip Torn ( The Larry Sanders Show ) and Shirley Knight as a middle-aged Houston couple mourning their son's death: "They get all the small regional footnotes of gesture and inflection just right.

  • Robert Wise's 1963 original, based on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House , is overrated, but it manages to evoke the eeriest aspect of Jackson's fiction: the way the characters' neuroses acquire an inexorable life of their own and threaten to eat them alive.

  • 9, 2003); Shirley Miller interview (Mar.


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