Example Sentences

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Their movement, jerky and storklike, drew attention to itself, but I was looking because of something else.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

As the Buckeye cricketers met for early morning practice on that concrete baseball field, trucks rumbled up the ramp to the Manhattan Bridge, and construction cranes perched storklike.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2016

At least, he thought, he did not have bird legs like his father, whose limbs were so storklike that they were a running family joke.

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2015

Houses that once perched storklike on stilts above the land now sit in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico; the earth beneath them has washed away.

From Time Magazine Archive

A stern, scholarly type who conducts with angular, storklike grace, Skrowaczewski takes an approach that is exact and exacting.

From Time Magazine Archive