How to Use rascal in a Sentence

rascal

noun

• Which one of you rascals woke me up?
• Over the phone, Downe is a likeable, raspy-voiced rascal.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al.com, 9 July 2019
• You’re allowed to be a rascal and you are allowed to have your own ideas.
  — Nadine Zylberberg, ELLE, 22 Dec. 2022
• That is the essence of a body horror, but this little rascal isn’t fiction.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2011
• Edwards tried to tell the groundskeepers and gameday staffers how to defend the rascal.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2021
• Bruno Dumont knows there’s more than one way to skin a media rascal.
  — Armond White, National Review, 5 Jan. 2022
• Scoundrels, rascals, caitiffs and blackguards have no place in Congress.
  — WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
• Long gone, however, are the pan-Atlantic rascals of yore.
  — David Jefferys, CNT, 3 Aug. 2017
• Oregon is chock-a-block with its own cast of rogues and rascals who stumble into strange situations or wind up on the wrong side of the law.
  — oregonlive, 26 Dec. 2019
• Depp plays his charming rascal in the lightheaded manner of a man who has either been in the sun too long or knows something no one else does.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2017
• Depp plays his charming rascal in the lightheaded manner of a man who has either been in the sun too long or knows something no one else does.
  — Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 July 2023
• The consummate newswoman, but a rascal with a sense of humor.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
• Then, alongside his grandson, the old rascal struts and prances around, filled with excitement at the thought of Willy Wonka’s factory.
  — Micah Weightman, Orange County Register, 14 Apr. 2017
• Poor Hoffman, even with that gorgeous mane of hair and nifty crooked grin, can only hint at what a rascal his character could be in real life.
  — Mark Feeney, Slate Magazine, 14 June 2017
• These little rascals provide hours of low-tech amusement.
  — Tony Long, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2006
• Scorpios are pretty much the rascals of the zodiac, known for being true friends albeit a little stubborn at times.
  — Brianna Wiest, Teen Vogue, 24 May 2018
• Seg-El grows up to be a twenty-something British actor who will one day be the grandfather of Superman but right now appears to be a...bland rascal?
  — Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2018
• Order one and feed everyone at your dad’s 70th birthday party, the rascals on your kid’s school excursion, or yourself—for about 66 days straight.
  — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 7 July 2023
• Musk also seems to like being a minor rascal, Morrison says.
  — Simon Constable, Time, 8 Apr. 2022
• For someone who came up as a restaurant rascal, Mr. Bourdain had a strong moral impulse, which showed in his reflections on the #MeToo movement and the failings of his own industry.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 8 June 2018
• The normal sitcom relationship is a nagging hottie and her rascal of a husband.
  — Vulture, 29 Oct. 2023
• Scientists, being a bunch of sneaky rascals, gave the spacecraft the ability to continue onward.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2017
• Pinocchio himself is a rascal who spends much of the film getting himself into trouble and relying on his friends and father, Geppetto, to bail him out.
  — Mike Rogoway | [e-mail], oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2023
• Getty Images Prince George, royal rascal, is somehow already six years old.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 21 July 2019
• People treated Cincinnati under Huggins like the Raiders of college basketball, rebels, rogues, and rascals.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Some things remained beyond the master's reach, perhaps because of the very qualities that made him a great designer, and at times, a rascal and a thoroughly miserable person to be around.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 18 June 2017
• And should someone, somewhere, indeed manage to unambiguously nab one of the little rascals, then the real fun begins.
  — Adam Hadhazy, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2018
• Putin, that rascal, has spent years parking six harmless-looking communications satellites along the same orbital plane.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 5 Mar. 2018
• No brewery or bar wants to be known as the destination for every parent whose energetic little rascals want to spark sandbox drama.
  — Andrew Simmons, SFChronicle.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• Sonic is every inch the peppy, computerized rascal he's supposed to be, sporting oversize eyes and lacking rows of realistic human teeth.
  — Frank Pallotta, CNN, 14 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024