How to Use rascal in a Sentence

rascal

noun

• Which one of you rascals woke me up?
• And Eli was, at times, a bit of a rascal.
  — David Kamp, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
• You’re allowed to be a rascal and you are allowed to have your own ideas.
  — Nadine Zylberberg, ELLE, 22 Dec. 2022
• My mother was a total gem but also a bit of a rascal.
  — Catherine Pearson, New York Times, 8 May 2026
• Right now, the rascal in him slumbers, briefly glimpsed now and again behind dark shades.
  — Emma Madden, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
• Bruno Dumont knows there’s more than one way to skin a media rascal.
  — Armond White, National Review, 5 Jan. 2022
• That is the essence of a body horror, but this little rascal isn’t fiction.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2011
• Scoundrels, rascals, caitiffs and blackguards have no place in Congress.
  — WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023
• It's been over 30 years since these rascals first charmed audiences.
  — Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
• Edwards tried to tell the groundskeepers and gameday staffers how to defend the rascal.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2021
• The video features black & white footage of group of little rascals getting up to no good in the most adorable ways possible.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2024
• The consummate newswoman, but a rascal with a sense of humor.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
• Yep, this little rascal figured out how to twist and press the hose to interrupt Mary’s shower time.
  — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
• The former child actors have grown up since their go-kart derby days on-screen — some have even welcomed their own little rascals off-screen.
  — Keith Langston, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
• Not even the curmudgeonly Melvin can bring himself to harm the little rascal.
  — Camille Perri, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The normal sitcom relationship is a nagging hottie and her rascal of a husband.
  — Vulture, 29 Oct. 2023
• Getty Images Prince George, royal rascal, is somehow already six years old.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 21 July 2019
• Some impatient little rascals got a sneak peek of Sunday’s finale of House of the Dragon.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 31 July 2024
• Scientists, being a bunch of sneaky rascals, gave the spacecraft the ability to continue onward.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2017
• Putin, that rascal, has spent years parking six harmless-looking communications satellites along the same orbital plane.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 5 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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
• Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.
  — Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
• 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
• 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 | [email protected], oregonlive, 19 Mar. 2023