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SHE

[shee]

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pronoun

the female person or animal being discussed or last mentioned; that female.

the woman: She who listens learns.

anything considered, as by personification, to be feminine: spring, with all the memories she conjures up.

noun

a female person or animal.

an object or device considered as female or feminine.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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Origin:
1125–75; Middle English, alteration of Old English sēo, sīo, sīe, feminine of se the¹; replacing Old English hēo, hīo, feminine personal pronoun; see he¹, her

Usage note
See he¹, me, they.

Example Sentences

She wore a black and silver dress to the event, which she attended with a group of friends.

Perhaps, she says wanly, your boss gives you extra energy through making you angry and whiny.

As soon as she could walk she wandered away, preferably into warm spring rain.

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She wore a black and silver dress to the event, which she attended with a group of friends.

Perhaps, she says wanly, your boss gives you extra energy through making you angry and whiny.

As soon as she could walk she wandered away, preferably into warm spring rain.

Thus, they see the sun rise later and set earlier than it does for a horizon without obstruction, she said.

She is encouraged to talk about any symptoms of her pregnancy, even common ones she is not experiencing.

She bought the electric drill to get a tidier household.

She began by creating a private sanctuary at the back of the property, off the existing studio.

Nina, the resident telepath, has the ability to force people to do what she wants but can only hold it for a few minutes.

She had money, connections and countless time spent on book tours.

Drago on paid leave, she said, as soon as she had learned of the complaints against him.

She promoted the benefits of fresh air, tea, homeopathy and a good joke.

She also found out where they had placed torpedoes, or barrels filled with gunpowder, in the water.

She was much more organized and structured and much more of a technician.

She has served as a role model for everything from proper feminine behavior to dress and hairstyle.

There have been plenty of drones, so she shouldn't have any trouble getting mated.

It makes no sense to me that we're not studying it more,” she said.

She turns the wheels with gestures that are part of the dance.

She was so shocked by the comment, she says, that she didn't know how to respond.

She has a wealth of experience in both the legislative and the executive branch.

Some of her best ideas come when she's in the shower, so she keeps a waxed pencil there and writes on the walls.

The cynical, irritated me feels she knows the answer to these questions.

She and her colleagues have been testing the bonobos' ability to express their thoughts vocally, rather than by pushing buttons.

Put them together with imagination, she adds, and you've got art.

She doesn't, she says, but she also wouldn't give up her memory for anything.

In the first place, the photographs she makes don't sell.

She had said she was going to check on one of the leads when she got home from the faculty meeting.

She wore a large fuzzy hat, and kept nodding slowly.

Within months, she had enough material to record her own album.

Whether she perished in the flood or before the flood is unknown.

She loved children and nature but also had a taste for finery, and she chafed at doing humble household chores.

She was readying it for an edible garden tour so it was at its full glory.

Cinderella ends up living happily ever after, but not because of anything she did.

She watched student employees struggle with the diversity at the radio station.

She worries she doesn't know how to live without him.

Her speed builds, and within seconds she reaches full sprint.

She taught calligraphy and still displays a fine italic hand.

Her sculptures have drawn crowds to gallery shows, and she is in demand as a lecturer.

The next spring, she spreads another inch of compost.

She dreams of growing bigger, but no matter what she does she remains her teeny cup-size.

She told her she was the girl in the picture, said she was sorry for what she had done, and started sobbing.

The fact she had other options was a great impetus for me to close the deal more quickly.

But scarcely had she touched the spindle when the magic decree was fulfilled, and she pricked her finger with it.

She did a great job of killing any romance people might have once had about the place.

She hails from a long line of dancers-she's the seventh generation-and her three daughters followed suit.

She lets the bees pretty much manage themselves, and says that they do pretty well.

She said she thought file sharing was akin to internet radio streaming.

She did not really understand what was going on, so she did as she was told.

That's exactly what a wild red fox did when she was play-boxing with another fox.

She walks over to her usual group but when she tries to talk to any of them, their responses are abrupt and unfriendly.

Pretending to flirt, she says it's her first time visiting the statue.

But she learned fast, thanks to a team of experts who brought the project to fruition.

She usually warms up after she can smell the person and approach on her terms.

She carried a toy frog over to her water bowl, and gently put it down as pictured.

She went on to test hundreds of volunteers with a host of chemicals found in food.

For both, she dropped the trimmed cardoons into a generous amount of boiling water.

Last year she and her family fled when the clouds of ash began to blow out of the mountain.

Now she was sure she'd come across something truly sensational, but there was an incoming tide on the horizon.

She then donned a pair of green spectacles and a top hat.

It's a bold cook who's willing to admit he or she likes to mix a packet of onion soup into a tub of sour cream for party dip.

She had to thaw her ink on the cabin stove to write, and she wrote delightfully.

She even picked one up and began playing with its tongue.

One of the risks for sarcomma, she was told is radiation.

She regularly trims back any plants that wander too far into the path.

Still buried beneath the sand, she breaks free from her shell.

She has her sights on other organisms too and has started working with yeast in order to engineer more complex nanostructures.

For instant makeovers, she stocks quick-change accessories, from lampshades and ottomans to pillows and pottery.

She slightly tugs on the leash, but it is better than before.

She set each pot on its side, steadying it with four rolled towels.

She now lectures around the world arguing for the preservation of natural resources.

Also, she was making a peculiar stiff-necked side-to-side motion with her head.

She remembers world events and trips to the grocery store, the weather and her emotions.

She installed sheets of plywood over the fence, sealed the spaces between them with wood putty, then painted on a primer.

She drills through the epidermis, then through a thin layer of fat, then into the network of blood-filled micro-capillaries.

Then she added a rattan chair and table, a water bowl, and garden art.

She lives nomadically half the year to help her aging mother and her two brothers.

As it grew, she began to train it into a tree shape.

She found herself spending more and more time in the garden and, finally, walked away from her career.

She brought in two large containers full of tropical plants.

When she's done, she hangs the hose hang from a hook next to the sink.

She covered the walls with rich shades of flat exterior latex paint.

She must be a person of good character to make efforts to protect the department's reputation.

Now she finds herself revisiting her earliest, groundbreaking work in computers, which she.

She nearly lost a fingertip the first time she tried to implant a neodymium disc herself.

She made a layup and a moment later drove to the basket from the corner, drawing.

That's why she looks the other way when her husband abuses his daughter, and why she continually physically abuses her, too.

How long can she stick to the policies that are about to.

She stumbles on the slippery riverbank and slides into a slurry of clay, sand, and fresh snowmelt.

However, during this time, she also got married and had the first of two children.

She will not consider being picked up, and she's one of the last to cluster around you when you bring them food.

She would have been my pick for the the first movie as well.

She sometimes lets her runners choose the number of laps they do by lottery.

About three years ago, she was hit with her own stimulus-a report that detailed the evidence of climate change.

At high school, before she was kicked out for fighting, she went by.

She struggles to free herself, but every movement drags her deeper.

She had tried all the usual medications, with little success.

She was dressed in jeans and a soft gray sweater, her voluminous.

She's eating and drinking, and yesterday, she laid an egg.

It is that she doesn't appear to understand the important issues.

She had a stroke that started all of it, but at first she still seemed to have her faculties.

She had to decide between the comfort of a staff news job and the unknown of freelance photography.

She had not yet attended college, so she was thrilled when she received an acceptance letter from an.

She has spent the decades since exploring role-playing through color self-portraits.

She shares her tips on how to incorporate global treasures and travel souvenirs.

She woke up later that afternoon, surprised that she was still alive.

The night she stands before an audience once again, she will share some advice on applying.

He had turned her off once before because, after paying her fare, she had refused to walk round.

When she attempted to move around the room in her wheelchair, she would sometimes bump into objects on her left.

By singing of her own hardships, she has given strength to others.

She will bring her laptop to the table, eat quickly and then go online while the rest of us are still eating.

She produced it, she said, in a delirium of pleasure.

As she comes to life, she thinks about school and the.

She is having makeup applied, preparing for a sit-down with a.

She was expressing her strength, whereas in her paintings she's expressing her pain".

She looked dazed as her hands were cuffed and she was put into a squad car.

She doesn't interact in a playful manner with our son.

She is also notorious for her overbearing perfectionism.

She looked so beautiful when flying as the wings were wide open and it showcased all of her beautiful colors.

Actually, for many of those years, she didn't have a home.

She's written a book she hopes will help people who talk the virtual talk walk.

Yet some of the jobs she held were by any standards worthwhile.

After all, she discovered two elements, was the first women to win a.

She holds the world record as the youngest mother ever.

Utley also says she realizes that interest from students comes with the.

She had so much more to write, to read and do that she could not bear to let go.

We are moving through to the perfection of gesture," she says.

When asked to explain her behavior, she said that she was overwhelmed with curiosity.

She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields and birds that the children killed.

She attributes it to comments she made a year ago in support of bloggers' rights to delete comments on their own blogs.

She even said in the article that she had grown up with a teacher father and understood the standard process.

Since she had never before held elected office, nobody could be sure what kind of president she would turn out to be.

She once came to my aunt's farm where there are stables and talked to all the animals there.

The human spine is one of the strongest arguments against intelligent design, and she is right.

She gingerly spreads the shriveled leaves of five potato plants on a worktable.

She started with white walls and sisal rugs for a calm backdrop.

She learned mathematics and science from private tutors.

But she says one public address stands out as by far the.

She should use it more constructively than the first.

She says it will be another few months before a prototype can be safely tested in the air.

She knew that other alligators sported these bumps, yet she'd never seen them on any other creature.

And she would have liked to see more endings that snuffed out alien bad guys using science rather than brute force.

The only way to insulate yourself against that is to ensure that she never has the opportunity to accuse.

She met many photographers, filmmakers, and other artists living there.

She is best known as a writer, for her numerous books of poetry and her six poignant memoirs, including the.

But she did bring a sensitive taste memory, an understanding of spices, and a clear vision of what she.

She called to her son once and then stood there, undecided.

She had a habit of turning her papers into somekind of thesaurus exercise and the end results could get pretty hysterical.

From her grandmother, she had learned that emeralds looked better with pink saris rather than green.

She worked as an apprentice in a commercial photo studio while attending.

She named all her kids after biblical names and said she s not worried about how support them.

She needed help dealing with the foreigners clamoring for greater access to her court.

She fertilizes with composted steer manure and alfalfa pellets.

Obeying a sudden impulse, she went over to the desk and opened.

Why are eating disorders, she wondered, regarded as a distinctly.

Her main concern was whether the candle in her room would last until she had.

Even at four in the morning she can run down the rocks to the river by starlight alone and climb the steep mountain back up to.

She couldn't understand why more scientists were not investigating how and why ocean organisms produce light.

She was once an obscure mail carrier, her workaday existence nothing to write home about.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

pronoun

she or he: used as an orthographic device to avoid he when the sex of the antecedent is unknown or irrelevant.

Compare she/he.

Usage note
See he¹.

contraction of she is.

contraction of she has.

Usage note
See contraction.

Link To SHE

Collins

World English Dictionary

she (ʃiː)

—*pron*
1.	refers to a female person or animal: she is a doctor; she's a fine mare
2.	refers to things personified as feminine, such as cars, ships, and nations
3.	(Austral), (NZ) an informal word for it : she's apples; she'll be right

—n
4.	a. a female person or animal
	b. (in combination): she-cat

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Word Origin & History

she

c.1154, probably evolved from O.E. seo, sio (acc. sie), fem. of demonstrative pronoun se "the." The O.E. word for "she" was heo, hio, however by 13c. the pronunciation of this had converged by phonetic evolution with he "he," so the fem. demonstrative pronoun probably was used in its place (cf. similar

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development in Du. zij, Ger. sie, Gk. he, etc.). The original h- survives in her. A relic of the O.E. pronoun is in Manchester-area dial. oo "she." She-devil "difficult woman" first recorded 1840.

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