Example Sentences

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A team of owllike sketch artists scratched at beige pads, peering through binoculars like spectators at a horserace, trying to get a good look at the last person to enter the courtroom: Stephanie Clifford.

From Slate • Apr. 16, 2018

“I guess I was always an archivist,” he said, smiling, surveying the spread, his glasses and ponderous forehead giving him an owllike bearing.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2017

Every now and then he would cry— a wavery owllike cry.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

But the owl-public would have none of me, and, owllike, hooted me off the boards.

From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

He had a look half pedant, half bully, and he spoke with a one-quarter-drunken, owllike solemnity.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary