Example Sentences

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Reader or not, Waters’ sparrow-like style of dipping and hopping is, in Byers’ view, one of the great joys of library ownership.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2022

The McGill women’s teams have been called the Martlets, a sparrow-like mythical bird that cannot land because it does not have feet, since 1976.

From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2019

Each diner was presented with a sizzling roasted ortolan, a sparrow-like bird the size of a lemon.

From The Guardian • Sep. 12, 2016

“It would have been a big deal,” Caruana, a sparrow-like, bespectacled young man, quietly confessed over coffee this week, after winning the U.S.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 28, 2016

As he said this he put his little sparrow-like head on one side and looked at me in such a comical fashion that I could scarcely refrain from laughing.

From Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance by Boothby, Guy