Example Sentences

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Compared with their Greekish forebears, they are far trickier affairs.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2012

Only 41 cases could he locate, so he decided it was a rarity, gave it a Greekish name, tetrapodisis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Poet Jeffers has already shown how, against the desert western American landscape, the characters of his imagination, impelled by Greekish lusts, drizzle themselves away.

From Time Magazine Archive

By the new main entrance from the high road beyond the town, through lofty Greekish gates, came the lords and lairds, in yellow coaches, gigs, and post chaises.

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George

Ah, sir, there's many a Greek and Trojan dead, Since first I saw yourself and Diomed In Ilion on your Greekish embassy.

From Troilus and Cressida by Shakespeare, William