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

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

I am a swamp hellion managing my barking desires.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2018

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

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2016

Only that she was, in her words: a hellion, who was shuttled from one unhappy foster situation to another.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson