childlike

Example Sentences

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But that he’s done it with such singular style and childlike glee is enough to make the audience remember that a movie theater is a hallowed space.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

Showing Attenborough's cross-generational appeal, US singer-songwriter Billie Eilish has praised his "deep love and knowledge of our planet", adding: "The animal kingdom brings out the childlike curiosity within us all."

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

He was unlike anyone I’d ever met, childlike and grown-up at the same time, goofy and intellectual.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Subjects tackled in the art will include deceased celebrities, discontinued chocolate bars, extinct animals and destroyed buildings, presented in "Lycett's usual tongue-in-cheek and childlike style."

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

The officer put it in his shirt pocket with a childlike glow in his eyes and he put the others back in the can and set it back where it had been.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez