Example Sentences

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By contrast, Newsom has chosen a more, shall we say, diplomatic approach, playing to Trump’s puppylike need for constant praise and attention.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025

He honestly does seem like an incredibly sweet guy, just as everybody in Seasons says, one with a huge heart, a sometimes astonishing vocal talent, and a puppylike distractibility by fast-moving things.

From Slate • Feb. 18, 2020

“There’s a puppylike quality to him, and that’s not Pierre,” Bothwell said.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2015

Seal loves Turkey with puppylike enthusiasm, and like the truest loves, he sees it clearly, with all its failings.

From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2012

Somewhere parrots squawked, somewhere else the puppylike yapping of toucans disturbed the solitude; nothing else.

From The Pathless Trail by Friel, Arthur O. (Arthur Olney)