On this page you'll find 7 example sentences with Tearaway. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as madcap or lunatic and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Tearaway in a sentence
Tearaway meaning
An impetuous and reckless person who is difficult to control; a hothead.
Synonyms of Tearaway
Using Tearaway
- The main meaning on this page is: An impetuous and reckless person who is difficult to control; a hothead.
- Useful related words include: madcap, lunatic, swashbuckler, hothead.
Context around Tearaway
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tearaway
- In this selection, "tearaway" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, teenage, bristol, entertaining, pacer, pants and transgressed stand out and add context to how "tearaway" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a teenage tearaway and an entertaining tearaway counter attack. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tearaway" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tearaway
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Garza tossed his tearaway pants at Mysterio and went on the offensive. (12 words)
Well, actually, Jonathan looked more like a history teacher than a teenage tearaway. (13 words)
The Brazilian got the second after an entertaining tearaway counter-attack which began with a Southampton corner. (17 words)
On acquiring it, he appointed Albert 'Larry' Lamb as editor and – Lamb recalled later – told him: "I want a tearaway paper with lots of tits in it". (27 words)
Tearaway pacer Issy Wong and all-rounder Dani Gibson will join the group for the initial period in South Africa as travelling reserves. (23 words)
From being raved as the successor to the Barbadian legends like Malcolm Marshall, the tearaway transgressed into a scattergun bowler. (20 words)
Example sentences (7)
Tearaway pacer Issy Wong and all-rounder Dani Gibson will join the group for the initial period in South Africa as travelling reserves.
Well, actually, Jonathan looked more like a history teacher than a teenage tearaway.
Garza tossed his tearaway pants at Mysterio and went on the offensive.
From being raved as the successor to the Barbadian legends like Malcolm Marshall, the tearaway transgressed into a scattergun bowler.
The memoir charts Tricky’s unlikely rise from young Bristol tearaway to one of British music’s most creative visionaries.
The Brazilian got the second after an entertaining tearaway counter-attack which began with a Southampton corner.
On acquiring it, he appointed Albert 'Larry' Lamb as editor and – Lamb recalled later – told him: "I want a tearaway paper with lots of tits in it".