angel-like

Example Sentences

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Her tattoo skills have blossomed — she can draw life-like portraits on calves using a technique called stippling; a single tattoo of angel-like wings on a back can be made of millions of dots.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2019

At the very time I was seeking to quarrel with Anna, she angel-like was incessant in my praise!—And such praises, Fairfax—!

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

There was sister dear, and brother, Around the old home-hearth; And a tender, Christian mother, Too angel-like for earth.

From The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems by Gordon, Hanford Lennox

On the other hand, she who was lately An angel call'd, and angel-like ador'd, is shocked to find herself at once stripped of all her celestial attributes.

From Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies by More, Hannah

And now another of these angel-like visits was looming in the distance.

From The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)