colleen

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for colleen
Noun
  • Love the artwork on your book cover, with the dangerous looking senorita along with freaky birds and trees you're known for.
    Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Football managers reared their boogie heads once again this term when a video surfaced of Pep Guardiola doing his best at courting the attentions of a Spanish senorita.
    SI.com, SI.com, 6 June 2019
Noun
  • This cake type was the sort fed to train and trench weary doughboys by Great War doughnut lassies (or doughnut dollies, depending) and flour, baking powder, sugar, and lard were all in good supply for the duration.
    Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
  • This cake type was the sort fed to train and trench weary doughboys by Great War doughnut lassies (or doughnut dollies, depending) and flour, baking powder, sugar, and lard were all in good supply for the duration.
    Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • There’s no need to sing a song of a lass that is gone.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
  • In a trice couples formed, and the dancers whirled away more wildly, more extravagantly than before, for all the lads and lasses were fired with ambition to show us how real Hungarians could dance.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • This year’s cups are meant to honor a trio of winning fillies: Regret (1915), Genuine Risk (1980), and Winning Colors (1988).
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2025
  • There are eight 3-year-old fillies entered for the Kentucky Oaks points race.
    Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Still, a high deb burden remains a key risk factor.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The viral video showed Martin, dressed in custom blue Valentino, in a moment with another deb, French countess Aliénor Loppin de Montmort.
    Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Colleen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colleen. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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