How to Use hellion in a Sentence

hellion

noun

• My children can act like little hellions when they're bored.
• At least Phillips has a hot newcomer in Lewis, a piano-pounding hellion with an ego as big as his sound.
  — Robert W. Butler, kansascity, 14 July 2017
• Honda is expert at putting torque to the road in front-wheel-drive cars (see the 292-horse Civic Type R hellion), and Accord’s no different.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 31 July 2021
• At 10 months, Mabel is a delicious imp, with the fair coloring of her mother and the gleeful expression of a hellion in training.
  — Judith Newman, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• And son Franklin Graham, a cigarette-smoking hellion during his teen years, delighted the crowd with anecdotes about the lengths his mother would go to get him out of bed in the morning.
  — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 16 June 2017
• My kids seemed adorable, completely unlike the hellions who made me pull the car over on the Henry Hudson Parkway just hours earlier and threaten them with military school.
  — Chris Morocco, Bon Appétit, 4 Nov. 2019
• That feels a little like the moment liberals are in right now, what with all these hot politicians stepping onto the global stage out of nowhere, some of whom may very well be nationalist hellions.
  — Kenzie Bryant, Vanities, 1 June 2018
• And Emma, unlike Laura, is a hellion with little interest in order or routine.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 24 Apr. 2018
• My younger kid, Dan, was a bit of a hellion, who, classically, Resisted Authority.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2021
• Even Dogtown skateboard legend Tony Alva, once a hellion of rebellion, has come to embrace inner peace through daily meditation (and still rips on his board at age 61).
  — Barbara Odanaka, latimes.com, 7 June 2019
• Detroit Police have a message for a band of hellions responsible for flinging scooters into the Detroit River, rolling the contraptions downhill in an attempt to knock people down and pushing a man to the ground.
  — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 23 Aug. 2019
• For the next 32 years, in photographs and two films (directed by her husband, Martin Bell ), Mark chronicled Tiny’s development from streetwise hellion, to teen prostitute and drug addict, to struggling mother of 10 children.
  — Richard B. Woodward, WSJ, 1 May 2021
• The group agrees to answer Mary’s murder by burning a shipment of munitions at Lord Massen’s factory, an uninspiring retaliation suggested by Lucy, who’s usually more of a hellion.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 2 May 2021

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024