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

And the neighbours all pity the colleen so pretty,

From BBC

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

“When you get older, like me, you brush it on the underside to hide the jowls,” he said, tapping at his neck as the colleens’ mothers chortled empathetically.

From New York Times

“There are plenty more colleens in the sea, and in fact Canada has a fair whack of them too.”

From Time