witchlike
- a word derived from witch.
Example Sentences
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Walking down a brightly lighted factory floor, Graham inspected rows of heavy Vampire bomber drones—known to Russian troops as “Baba Yaga,” after witchlike figures in Slavic folklore—and smaller Shrike attack drones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
But with Petrenko a tall, animated presence on the podium — bouncing up and down, shimmying, and hypnotically curling the long fingers of his left hand, witchlike — it was a pleasant evening.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2022
Once, Thoreau wrote, a frequenter of the woods passed Zilpah’s house and claimed to have heard her muttering to herself, witchlike, over a gurgling pot — “Ye all are bones, bones!”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021
Along comes the witchlike image of Vittoria to embody every teenager’s ambivalent urge to blow up their complacent home.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2020
The noise, the sordidness, the witchlike matron annoy me.
From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Vorst, Marie Van
