ratlike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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And certainly Marvel’s vocal characterization of the deteriorating Mary — lilting then wheedling then ratlike then hollow — is one you will not soon get out of your head.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
Malone Moulin, a 3-year-old resident of Le Havre, France, insists on two things: toting a ratlike stuffed animal with him wherever he goes, and asserting that his parents are impostors.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2021
Early mammal relatives, including the beaverlike tritylodontids and ratlike morganucodontids, were also potential prey for Dilophosaurus.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 15, 2020
In February, the Australian government declared a ratlike creature known as the Bramble Cay melomys to be extinct.
From The New Yorker ● May 13, 2019
The way he was moving his ratlike mouth, I knew he was working up another loogie to spit on me.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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