toadlike
- a word derived from toad.
Example Sentences
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Hence the deficit, which sits toadlike on our national aspirations.
From Time Magazine Archive
Professor Oliver Farrington, also of the Field Museum, found fossilized bones of a fantastic toadlike creature, probably the extinct megatherium, in the state of Bahia, Brazil.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only Ed Barrow, who later built up the New York Yankees, stuck around to watch popeyed as the fleet-footed Wagner covered ground in tremendous toadlike leaps, smothered the ball in his huge hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Umbridge held out a small hand: She looked so toadlike at that moment that Harry was quite surprised not to see webs between the stubby fingers.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
He wore a battered bowler hat, pulled down low over his huge toadlike eyes, and he licked his wide lips with a tongue as thick as my arm.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
