catlike

Example Sentences

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Though sometimes called “bear cats” for their stocky bearlike bodies and sly catlike faces, binturongs are related to neither, and actually have the playful temperament of a pet dog.

From Washington Post

You get a glimpse of that performer in the series’ second episode, when, as Spock plays on his Vulcan lyre, Uhura begins to mischievously sing and move catlike through the ship’s lounge: “Oh, on the Starship Enterprise / There’s someone who’s in Satan’s guise / Whose devil ears and devil eyes / Could rip your heart from you.”

From Los Angeles Times

She hones in on their egoistic needs with catlike reflexes, learning the routes and paths through which both may be influenced for her own purposes.

From Los Angeles Times

Though there appears to be no love lost between the two, Margaret, the first lady, is no Melania Trump, except for the catlike smugness that’s the top note of Vanessa Williams’s sleek performance.

From New York Times

The fossil—the lower jaw of a catlike mammal—was found in 1988 at a construction site in Oceanside, Calif. Researchers who newly studied it using modern techniques found that it belonged to a previously unknown machaeroidine, or member of the rare subfamily Machaeroidinae, a group including five other now extinct carnivorous saber-toothed predators.

From Scientific American