Example Sentences

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And who wouldn’t respond to a mask that culminates in a fierce lionlike mane made from layers of yarn, startling in blinding blue, or one of white crochet surrounded by gravity-defying hot-pink yarn tresses?

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2020

Douglass’ strong features project relentless determination and lionlike pride.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2016

Douglass’s strong features project relentless determination and lionlike pride.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2016

Though lionlike in aspect, Shepilov was a mild man and an appropriate mouthpiece for the soft words of coexistence with which the Soviet leaders were then screening their far-flung operations.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had recovered his color: ruddy, or even lionlike, she thought.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman