tearaway - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • play: A petite blond bombshell, Kylie plays the teenage tearaway Charlene and her record I Should Be So Lucky soared up the pop charts.
  • build: Before there was Elsie, Yamaha built an equally memorable two-stroke tearaway.

Adjective modifier

  • teenage: Does the car of a teenage tearaway knock me down in the street?
  • two-stroke: Before there was Elsie, Yamaha built an equally memorable two-stroke tearaway.
  • memorable: Before there was Elsie, Yamaha built an equally memorable two-stroke tearaway.
  • little: Horatio, or Horace to his friends, is a right little tearaway!

Modifies a noun

  • kid: Tearaway kids aged between 10 and 16 who set off fireworks, booze, shout abuse and spray graffiti will be targeted.
  • youth: It didn't help Van Zandt's state of mind that as a tearaway youth he was spuriously subjected to electric shock treatment.

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