hellion

Example Sentences

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Like a patient dad, McCarthy is trying to calm the little hellions, but it is unclear what he can do to make them happy.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2023

Good enough to help a consortium of Seattle rock hellions, slinging disparate amalgamations of punk, metal and ’70s rock, wage an accidental takeover of pop culture.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2021

“Most of his account was reasonably factual, although I was neither the pious saint nor the other guys the hellions he made them into,” he told Life magazine in 1998.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2016

In the new movie The Sitter, Jonah Hill plays a college student who hauls a trio of hellions to a raucous party in Manhattan.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2011

He just couldn't conceive that a lady with three children could make a suit like that stick against any man—especially three children that was known to be hellions.

From Ma Pettengill by Wilson, Harry Leon