The word 'girlfriends' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to female friends or companions who are not family members or romantic partners. Example: My girlfriends and I are planning a weekend trip to the beach.
She wasn't there to play wives and girlfriends in the boys' scenes.
It's a world the fortune-teller knows well: over the years, she said she had often used her gift to help local people – locating a lost kilo of opium paste or comforting the girlfriends of slain traffickers.
I celebrate my birthday in the morning with my girlfriends over brunch and, in the evening, I order in and cuddle up with my dog.
The trafficker spent the next eight years in high-security jails in Mexico, though his sojourn behind bars was reputedly softened by access to luxuries including good food and girlfriends.
I was an ignorant man who used to have many girlfriends, but no more after learning it is not correct Islam to fall in love with a girl without being married to her.
But it turns out that in spite of a certain gloss in their tailoring and appearance, and the obligatory photogenic girlfriends (Turner is dating the American actress and model Arielle Vandenberg after a well-publicised split from his long-term girlfriend, the TV presenter Alexa Chung, in 2011. Cook and Helders are also engaged to models), Arctic Monkeys remain reassuringly un-LA.
I'd never told anyone about my sexual shortcomings, not girlfriends of course, not my brother.
After the murder, Mr Carty used this mobile and Mr Brown used one belonging to the other man to phone their girlfriends, and Mr Carty sold Mr ap Rhys Pryce's phone to a shop assistant for £30 the next day.
Soon it spread to other sports, to showing "pretty young things" among spectators, players' girlfriends, now even to music events.
He'd sign autographs for sisters and girlfriends, and in turn they'd give him tobacco and newspapers.
[Singing.] Girlfriends he's had a few, in fact a lot, the list is endless.
