hellion

How To Use hellion In A Sentence

• They are not the happy, well adjusted children that we all imagine we can raise until we actually have the little hellions.
• Also the South was becoming the subject of ridicule throughout the country, and I thought most southerners would not like to see themselves thought of as being hellions and blackguardly-type persons. Oral History Interview with Marion Wright, March 8, 1978. Interview B-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
• I've instructed the staff to keep their computers away from the little hellions.
• One minute she would sound like a wounded angel, the next like a streetwise hellion.
• When you cannot remember what sedulous means, or you want to find out why somebody called you a hellion, you do not have to bother opening the dictionary or calling your local lexicographer.
• His demeanor suddenly changed from gentle, indulgent parent, to barking hellion.
• They're either too weak to withstand any hits or their attacks do little other than annoy this rebel hellion.
• His demeanor suddenly changed from gentle, indulgent parent, to barking hellion.
• Suddenly Howell was getting the hang of talking to this hellion in a wheelchair.
• Bart falls in love with Reverend Lovejoy's beautiful daughter, only to discover that she is more of a hellion than he is.