colleen

Example Sentences

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Wilmington described O’Hara as “Hollywood’s ultimate fiery colleen, she has a classic chiseled Irish beauty and a thinly strapped temper that erupted smashingly into scathing tantrums or round-house rights.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2015

And the neighbours all pity the colleen so pretty,

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2015

The Hitch The inhabitants of a neighboring barren, windswept Irish island want parts in it, including the play’s misshapen title character and a sociopathic colleen named Slippy Helen.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2014

Debbie Reynolds was the madcap of the '50s, a slip of a colleen with a heart-shaped face.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, p. 591one morning I sat within my door spinning, with a little bit of a colleen beside me who waited upon me as servant. 

From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry