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

Upon any Irishman caught sporting with a colleen thus dressed, Senator Moore proposed to visit drastic punishment.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Sure, an' she's a dainty colleen," O'Malley purred as he waited for the sergeant to swing down.

From A Yankee Flier with the R.A.F. by Montgomery, Rutherford George