dangerous woman

Example Sentences

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His mother, whom J. Edgar Hoover would call “the most dangerous woman in America,” was born into a middle-class home and grew up in a suburb north of Milwaukee.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

You need to be a "dangerous" woman in Croatia to survive.

From Salon • Jul. 7, 2022

Here, she pours such mesmerizing energy and inventiveness into Alison’s wrecking-ball antics that you almost forget that this charming, dangerous woman doesn’t quite track as a credibly motivated character.

From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2019

I ask Chakrabarti – once branded by the Sun as “the most dangerous woman in Britain” – who she thinks deserves the “most dangerous” hallmark now.

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2016

“Trouble is tinker, I put myself into debt with a dangerous woman in order to buy this horse. If I don’t sell it well, I’m going to be in a desperate way.”

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss