coltish

Example Sentences

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One of the youngsters was a coltish winger from Carmagnola, a pretty market town just south of Turin.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2023

The requirements of intimacy acting aside, she brings coltish physicality and expressive flush to all her scenes — whether lonely or laughing, aggravated or emboldened.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2022

And those girls are indeed a light: Sidney and Singleton show giggly chemistry as sisters and coltish joy on the tennis courts.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2021

Jordan had progressed from a promising but coltish No 3 pick in the 1984 draft to the NBA’s first authentic international superstar; his rise paralleled, or rather propelled, the global rise of the league.

From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2020

I’d axed Pap, “But how can you tell if they’s gonna be any good hunting when they’s acting so coltish and foolish, Pap?”

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis