Example Sentences

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If we just succumb sheeplike to the luxuries of a consumerist society, there is a whole magic kit that lies there gathering dust.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2018

Most of us complied, a startled and sheeplike herd.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2015

Now they are a hipster habit, a sheeplike folly, a permanent pretension.

From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2014

It practiced direct action; it had a knack for breaking up Communist meetings and was expert at exposing the sheeplike West German businessmen who clandestinely supported the Reds as "just in case" insurance.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was no matter that he later claimed that he had meant simply that they reminded him of sheep, or that there was something fluffy and sheeplike about them.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman