stormy petrel

Example Sentences

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But Leon Smith, the captain, was determined to have him here, his stormy petrel capable of all sorts of heroics in the past, a good luck charm now, and a loud one.

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2015

The stormy petrel from Wisconsin has issued a stinging rejoinder.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jim Carey had been a stormy petrel in the labor movement for years.

From Time Magazine Archive

The shabby, bright-eyed stranger who could command an audience with these famed statesmen at such an hour was none other than M. Georg Tchitcherin, famed political stormy petrel and Foreign Minister to the Soviet Union.

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, Sarah, I half dislike having your stormy petrel in our little town.

From The Heart's Country by Vorse, Mary Heaton