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

Joan Fontaine in Hitchcock’s Suspicion has the girlish, coltish beauty that co-existed with the almost spinsterly style of the schoolteacher, and a smidgen of undeceived worldliness.

From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2018

Velia pushed Pita toward me and got up to stretch her long, coltish legs.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall