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

Early mammal relatives, including the beaverlike tritylodontids and ratlike morganucodontids, were also potential prey for Dilophosaurus.

From Scientific American • Dec. 15, 2020

And bringing up the rear: a narrow, ratlike tail.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 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

Arm felt a kind of energy flow from him to the ratlike bartender.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer