Example Sentences

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Michael Fassbender stars as Callum Lynch, a death-row criminal who’s executed before our eyes, only to be brought back to life by a beautiful scientist in flawless red lipstick and a nunlike hairdo.

From Time • Dec. 19, 2016

Dickinson, the nunlike individualist, again filled the bill.

From New York Times • May 13, 2010

A council of crows sat to hear the amazing music and departed mystified, all but a nunlike raven, who found the beakless Caruso and adored him.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her poor worn face, nunlike under its white cap and with its look of renunciation, grew white in the keenness of her anguish.

From Doctor Pascal by Serrano, Mary J. (Mary Jane)

I was dressed also in a whimsical nunlike habit which denoted that I did not retire to solitude from necessity, but that I might indulge in a luxury of grief, and fanciful seclusion.

From Mathilda by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft