Example Sentences

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A humanoid warehouse worker, Digit walked upright on goatlike legs and grabbed bins off a shelf with muscular arms made from aerospace-grade aluminum.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 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

Without a goat’s strong front legs and flexible musculature, a person undertaking goatlike movements, such as galloping or leaping to the ground head first, would be badly hurt.

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