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How to use the word boys-and-girls in a Sentence?

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There was chaos, with little boys and girls running around alone, some parents were able to grab their children, there was a little girl of around three or four who was not sheltering under the parasol. I ran out and grabbed her.

Sicus Carbonell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Opening boys’ and girls’ bathrooms to students of the opposite biological sex threatens the privacy and safety of all students, no law requires schools to go down that dangerous path. No controlling precedent holds that Title IX or the Equal Protection Clause means that schools must permit students to use whatever bathrooms they like.

Todd Rokita

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Here we are again, on another day of mourning in this country, once again, we grieve for the little boys and girls whose lives have been ended and whose families have been destroyed.

Jimmy Kimmel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

To tell these little black boys and girls, who have been perfectly made and given power by God their creator, that they are oppressed, is disgusting and it's wrong and it needs to end right now.

Former NFL player Jack Brewer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't know how to answer that one, but Mario is ... obedient … I just make sure everything is available. He goes to the boys and girls club in our neighborhood. He helps out. He's not like secluded in the house away from everything but … I know all his friends. I know who he talks to on the phone.

Zipporah Collins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From the very beginning, boys and girls are different in the way they swim. This is n’t chess, we’ve had some pretty fast girls as Olympians, but the boys will always beat them off the blocks.

Champion Women

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We will not allow boys and girls to study together, we will not allow co-education.

Abdul Baqi Haqqani

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He was the kindest, most gentle and loving man, he loved the boys and girls of the U.S. military. He loved his country.

Grace Galloway

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're a school of choice. We're classical in our curriculum and very traditional. I believe that the more of the traditional things you have in place, the more they tend to reinforce each other, we want boys to be boys and girls to be girls and have mutual respect for each other. We want boys to carry the umbrella for girls and open doors for them ... and we want to start teaching that in grammar school.

Barbara Milano Keenan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're trying to actively get more kids involved with after-school programs such as computer literacy, teaching them how to write essays, math, social studies, science, this is what's needed for these inner-city youths to keep them active. If they don't have no parks to go to, no boys and girls clubs, no after-school activities, what do you expect, they're going to get in trouble.

Vaughn Dickerson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I walked through Fort Bliss. I walked through the lodging area for boys and girls. We keep the boys and girls separate. I saw no issue with the attire, apparel for the kids.

Xavier Becerra

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Why do Ubers Jump bikes in Seattle have to get tossed away in the dark of night given two days notice, i could've called my local boys and girls club and said' hey you want Ubers Jump bikes in Seattle ?'.

Jamaica Lambie

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In every urban core you have the same mentality that is on display in St Louis right now. In St Louis, we have a human capital crisis where you have men, women, boys and girls who have not been cultivated to care, so, violence becomes a knee-jerk reaction.

James Clark

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Weve won two World Cups back-to-back. Weve done everything on the field to encourage and inspire players and kids and parents and coaches, boys and girls to come to the games.

Carli Lloyd

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Children are very curious about their bodies... and curious about the other sex, they want to look at other bodies, touch other bodies, and they want to explore the difference between boys and girls. It is all very innocent and part of the normal sexual development of children. They don't have the same mindset as we do. They are just curious.

Elsbeth Reitzema

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Shes a non-citizen terrorist; she has no legal basis for a claim of U.S. citizenship, shes not coming back to the United States to create the risk that someday shed return to the battlefield and continue to put at risk American people, American kids, American boys and girls that were sent to help defeat ISIS -- she put them at risk, shes not a U.S.citizen, shes not coming back.

Mike Pompeo

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

When boys and girls do play together, many of those differences start to disappear.

David Walsh

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing. They hid it all.

Josh Shapiro

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We cannot recover those lives, but we can analyze the system, make it transparent, that it is not about egos, it is not about personalities. These are boys and girls, teenagers.

Carlos Rodas

Found on CNN
7 years ago

These are boys and girls, teenagers.

Carlos Rodas

Found on CNN
7 years ago

There are absolutely no sex hormones in urine, hCG increases the same amount for boys and girls, so with a urine test, there is no way to know the sex of the baby.

Mary Jane Minkin

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When I started, the people using steroids were almost exclusively men in their twenties and thirties, but what we see now is that more and more young boys and girls are interested, it has to do with the fixation with body image, the desire to look good...

Morten Heierdal of Anti-Doping Norway

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There tends to be a lot of focus on girls and very little focus on boys, we did n’t find evidence in our paper that there are differences in monitoring for boys and girls. It works for both.

Vincent Guilamo-Ramos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Clearly – I would hope clearly – we’re still going to have a mens’, womens’, boys’ and girls’ clothing department, barbies are still going to be with Barbies and Legos will still be with Legos. We just didn’t feel like having a sign that said ‘boys bedding’ was necessary.

Molly Snyder

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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