Example Sentences

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Thus, maggots are debriding wounds better than surgeons, killing bacteria better than some of our best antibiotics, and stimulating blood flow in wizardlike ways.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2024

A man with a floppy hat and wizardlike robe began to gyrate wildly around the dance floor.

From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2018

But the wizardlike Edison has shown that the influences direct and indirect of that June day of 1752 may have yet only begun.

From True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin by Pierce, H. Winthrop

I know you are fond of queer, wizardlike stories.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George