How to Use chorus girl in a Sentence

chorus girl

noun
  • The ape man and Boy meet a chorus girl on her way to warn a sheik about Nazis.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Christine is a dancer and chorus girl who lost her father at a young age.
    Allie Caren, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • There was a mysterious death of a chorus girl [at the theater].
    Lydia Price, PEOPLE.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Richards began her career as a chorus girl in Harlem’s Cotton Club.
    Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Dublin playwright Sean O’Casey loves a librarian, sleeps with a chorus girl and meets Yeats.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Nine days later, Davis married a Black chorus girl named Loray White.
    Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 15 Oct. 2023
  • With razor-sharp wit, Megan Fairchild, puffing away on a cigarette and then clearing the air with the silky wave of a hand, brought the glamour of a 1940s chorus girl to her debut.
    Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Her status is threatened, however, when a struggling New York chorus girl moves back home with dreams of her own.
    Rick Porter, Billboard, 3 Dec. 2019
  • He was linked to the Cleveland Street male brothel scandal and the death of a suicidal chorus girl who swallowed carbolic acid.
    Jonathan Miles, Town & Country, 5 Sep. 2023
  • And those speakeasies in Harlem, with their chorus girl extravaganzas, bathtub gin, and Madden’s No. 1 beer?
    Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2021
  • Fosse directed and choreographed the show while Verdon starred as chorus girl Roxie Hart.
    Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Apr. 2019
  • The entire first act is a party, starting with the pre-show theatrics (two chorus girls do an impressive sword-swallowing act on the lip of the stage, which extends over the heads of the first three rows of the audience).
    Kyle Smith, National Review, 30 Aug. 2019
  • On Wednesday, the former chorus girl from Encinitas was appointed to the top artistic job at an opera company in Oregon.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Her voice floating between genres, Del Rey comes off like an isolated queen in the Hall of Mirrors or a lone chorus girl performing for empty church pews.
    Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Anna works as a chorus girl, touring endless small towns and moving from one grim boardinghouse to another.
    Rupert Thomson, WSJ, 22 May 2020
  • At some point during her travels, Rainey became acquainted with a young Bessie Smith, who was then performing as a chorus girl, and became Smith’s mentor.
    New York Times, 12 June 2019
  • There's a chic, dancer-like quality to Jenner's outfit, akin to a Bob Fosse chorus girl or an off-duty ballerina.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The new museum director, the article implied, was little more than a chorus girl with a sugar daddy.
    Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Lucille came from nothing and, with an unrivaled work ethic, built a career as a model, chorus girl and eventually as an actor in the studio system.
    San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Presently, another couple arrives out of the storm — a flirtatious chorus girl (Lilian Bond) and a boisterous local aristocrat who, as embodied by Charles Laughton, is a force of nature to rival the weather.
    J. Hoberman, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
  • His mother, Florence Leder Ditchik, was a beauty queen and chorus girl on Broadway, later an interior decorator.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2019

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