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

It’s your moral obligation to introduce this delightful hellion to all the quarantine pups in your life.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2020

So he agrees to take her, even though she is a hellion at the start.

From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2016

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 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