Example Sentences

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“As Alan Carr says, the faithful have got to up the nerve at the banishment table and behave less like pussycats and more like rottweilers,” said TV reporter Siobhan Synnot.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025

Plus 1940s sipping-at-the-soda-shop starlet crepes in retro prints like rotary dial phones and slinky pussycats, or with judiciously placed rhinestones.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2017

IT can make engines sound like purring pussycats — or growling tigers.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2016

They begin to purr like patriotic pussycats, and their stripes turn suddenly red, white and blue.

From Time Magazine Archive

"At this time of day they are asleep, as all good pussycats should be," was the King's answer.

From Dot and Tot of Merryland by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)