thrush
noun
any of numerous, medium-sized songbirds of the family Turdinae, usually dull brown and often speckled below, and including many outstanding singers.
thrushlike
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a word derived from
thrush.
Example Sentences
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Selznick also bowed to them when he cast Olivia de Havilland as sweetish, big-eyed, thrushlike Melanie Hamilton, Leslie Howard as smooth, anemic, intellectual Ashley Wilkes, Laura Hope Crews as futile, flustered foolish Aunt Pittypat.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a thrushlike little fellow, very shy and difficult to see as he sat poised on the tip of a black pine in the deep forest.
From The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Hamlin Garland
Her sternness of tone and the thrushlike softness of her voice, mingled with the piquancy of paradox.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
Above the grind of the elevated and the traffic, he was hearing her voice in thrushlike song, happy because he loved her.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
Its cries, however, are not at all thrushlike.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar
