Example Sentences

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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

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

One fairy used a golden lash to send a toadlike monstrosity crashing through the wall.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

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