lamblike
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of lamblike
Example Sentences
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But after his lionlike complaints, the President offered lamblike recommendations.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had a lamblike helplessness in the face of everyday problems; he was easily presumed upon.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is constantly assumed," he wrote, "especially in our Tolstoyan tendencies, that when the lion lies down with the lamb the lion becomes lamblike.
From Time Magazine Archive
In their northern English homeland, where the breed originated around 1825, Bedlingtons were anything but lamblike.
From Time Magazine Archive
The police, whenever my mother forebode, would indeed come, and many of the men of the yard would be caught napping, surrendering themselves with lamblike submission.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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