Example Sentences

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Populating the ridge and surrounding slopes are herds of gazellelike creatures called guanacos; viscachas, marmotlike rodents with rabbity ears; burros; and hawks.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2023

Cumberbatch and Foy manage to find purchase as two misfits in love, alternately rabbity and wide-eyed in a private world of shyness and mutual understanding.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2021

We’re so quiet I can hear my own quick, scared, rabbity breaths, and as I revel in my own fear I realize they’re right.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2015

She wanted a career as a model, and had the starved physique that was fashionable in the 60s, but she was tripped up by her rabbity front teeth, here seen poking through her lips.

From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2011

The edges of her nostrils were inflamed and rabbity, and she reached up to wipe her nose with a red-taloned hand.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt