goatlike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The Mountain Goats are something of an acquired taste: They’re earnest and wordy, and Darnielle’s vocals strike some people as too … well, goatlike*.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2023
Protecting panda habitats benefited other species as well, Pimm says, including the takin, a goatlike animal considered vulnerable, and endangered snub-nosed monkeys.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 7, 2021
The canyon widened, and Luther led me up a goatlike trail along the right shoulder.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2016
Reading Heidegger convinced Thwaites that, to inhabit the mental life of a goat, he would need to relate to his surroundings in a goatlike way.
From The New Yorker ● May 23, 2016
I run up the path, trot along the edge of the pond, then, placing my two feet together, leap goatlike down the slope to the millhouse.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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