Example Sentences

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In some ways, Ms. Hurst had been a motherlike figure to Mr. Guara, who was 12 years younger.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2021

“I do; a dear motherlike creature you are. But I do not know myself.”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Far away the mountains were overhung with purple so deep that the very air looked like mist, and a peace that seemed motherlike in tenderness brooded over the earth.

From The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by Fox, John

Afterward, greatly to my satisfaction, I heard that though, motherlike, Mrs. Hudson had forgiven her son, Mr. Sherwood ever treated him with a cool haughtiness which effectually kept him at a distance.

From The Haunted Homestead A Novel by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

It was natural and motherlike that she should try to defend me; but it only made matters worse.

From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself by Jacobs, Harriet Ann