colleen

Example Sentences

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Wilmington described O’Hara as “Hollywood’s ultimate fiery colleen, she has a classic chiseled Irish beauty and a thinly strapped temper that erupted smashingly into scathing tantrums or round-house rights.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2015

And the neighbours all pity the colleen so pretty,

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2015

The Hitch The inhabitants of a neighboring barren, windswept Irish island want parts in it, including the play’s misshapen title character and a sociopathic colleen named Slippy Helen.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2014

It is the story of a stage-struck Irish colleen named Carey, who pines for stardom and is raised to it by a producer who is a theatrical genius.

From Time Magazine Archive

You, at any rate, are not ashamed,' he continued slily, 'of going to tay with your mammy, or of perambulating by the say with a colleen asthore!

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis