Example Sentences

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Her father, she tells us, is easy to write about; he was vivid, domineering, scornful, and babyishly quick to anger.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 4, 2016

"You will, won't you, beautiful?" she said, her lips, raw-looking now without makeup, pouting babyishly.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

"From papa," said Patty, putting the tip of her finger in her mouth, and speaking babyishly.

From Patty's Butterfly Days by Wells, Carolyn

Whereat the colt, eyes wide with terror, whirled to his mother, whimpering babyishly.

From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Horton, Marcus

And yet the wine of romance kept her almost babyishly young.

From The Madigans by Lowell, Orson