Example Sentences

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The designer behind Alice + Olivia, known for embellished denim and party dresses, looks remarkably like her brand’s doll-like logo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026

She is tiny and doll-like, but her cries are all too real.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2024

Her natural nails used to be long, strong and doll-like just like how mine are now.

From Salon • Aug. 11, 2024

Osment’s David is a doll-like presence whose screeching bursts of laughter and too-literal statements unnerve the parents who bring him home as a surrogate of sorts for the child they thought they’d lost for good.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2024

It was Papito who paid the rent and bought them their winter clothes and spoiled them once with an outing to Lincoln Center to see the doll-like ballerinas dancing on their toes.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez