hellion

Example Sentences

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A little hellion, according to her own description, she was not adopted even after her picture and profile were featured as a child needing a forever home in The Seattle Times.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2021

It’s your moral obligation to introduce this delightful hellion to all the quarantine pups in your life.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2020

Among others, Kun encounters his great-grandfather as a motorcycle-riding young rebel, his own mother as a youthful hellion, and, most perplexing of all, his own sister Marai as an engaging “Marai from the future” teenager.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2018

So he agrees to take her, even though she is a hellion at the start.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2016

No doubt she was scolding my little hellion.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez