thrushlike
- 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
Its cries, however, are not at all thrushlike.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas
Beatrix laughed, on a thrushlike note of enjoyment.
From Abington Abbey A Novel by Marshall, Archibald
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 Garland, Hamlin
Her sternness of tone and the thrushlike softness of her voice, mingled with the piquancy of paradox.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
