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Meanings of little sister in English

A female who is younger than one or more of her siblings.

Usage of little sister in English
1
You need to learn to get along with your new little sister.
Have a new kid by friday: how to change your child's attitude, b...
2
The thought of the little sister quelled the storm in Marcella's soul.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908
3
Their little sister was only 8 years of age when she fled.
Radio NZ
4
If she had given Xavier the little sister he kept asking about.
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5
And his faithful little sister had hers; for nothing ever parted them.
Olive: A Novel
6
The young man shared his little sister's love of language and writing.
Radio NZ
7
Her little sister was in danger, the only near relative she had.
Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
8
Just then the nurse came into the cistern-house bringing her little sister.
The Story of My Life / With her letters (1887-1901) and a supple...
9
The little sister gazed from one to the other with kindling eyes.
Pixie O'Shaughnessy
10
Baby, sweetheart, little sister, love of my life, of course I'm sorry.
Choke
11
It wasn't Harry I wanted to see; it was his little sister.
11/22/63
12
Our little sister was in one of those sacks, gagged or unconscious.
The Boy Scouts in Front of Warsaw; Or, In the Wake of War
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The boy told his little sister his thought and she followed him.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
14
So the bad ones did not gain by killing their little sister.
Old Peter's Russian Tales
15
Perhaps she is working for that little sister at the Blind Asylum.
Over the Teacups
16
You seem to have taken the little sister quite away from her.
A Modern Tomboy: A Story for Girls
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Little sister through the time
Little sister across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Australia
Common
United States of America
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