Example Sentences

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Dad goes all policemanlike too, as if the offense is too serious to merely get cross at.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

He was staring with a policemanlike expression at the tall man, who, after a vain attempt to ignore him, had eventually to turn away.

From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Shaw, Bernard