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

My younger kid, Dan, was a bit of a hellion, who, classically, Resisted Authority.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2021

Or is it just that Fox has become tired of scampering around like some overage-underage hellion?

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2015

And a bit of a hellion, she might have added.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2015

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