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 | mwake@al.com, 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
  • Here’s your chance, lads and lassies, to snap up a historic home in Scotland from one of the United States’ most beloved musicians.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • There’s no need to sing a song of a lass that is gone.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
  • That's absolutely the wildest way to welcome a lass to your city.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The $250,000 Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2) is Race 9 Saturday and seven 3-year-old fillies are entered with a pair of favorites expected to decide the race.
    Jay Ginsbach, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Race 11 is the $400,000 Fair Grounds Oaks (G2) for 3-year-old fillies with the same qualifying points awarded towards the May 2 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs.
    Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Now every nubile deb has her eye on him, and our poor heroine doesn’t seem to stand a chance.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 16 May 2024
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“Colleen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colleen. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.

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