Example Sentences

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He was dealing with sickness rather than mortal wounds, but that scorching sense of the dragonish burns into Kurzel’s “Macbeth.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2015

The illuminated sky of the final version is far less dragonish, with less of what Yeats called "the cold and rook-delighting heaven."

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2011

She and I both knew the dragonish thing to do.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

Plato, who liked definite ideas, would like my cardboard dragon; for though the creature has few other artistic merits he is at least dragonish.

From Tremendous Trifles by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

He had a dragonish look, to me; and I tried never to meet his glance.

From A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) by Larcom, Lucy