colleen
Example Sentences
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“You could tell us a story without any colleens or battles in it.”
From Literature
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
And the neighbours all pity the colleen so pretty,
From BBC
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
“When you get older, like me, you brush it on the underside to hide the jowls,” he said, tapping at his neck as the colleens’ mothers chortled empathetically.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.