dove-like
Example Sentences
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In French, the word “pigeon” has two senses: a dove-like bird, but also a dupe, victim or fall guy.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2015
The three decanters boast an avian grace: the Swan's swooping body, the Flamingo's long slender neck and the Paloma's dove-like curves.
From Time Magazine Archive
Try to outvie and outdo and even affront that dove-like simplicity he used to adore in you, and into which you are still apt to relapse.
From A Rose of a Hundred Leaves A Love Story by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Should he go and leave the Native Officer in command, or should he send forth the two precious trucks into the gathering gloom and hope that, dove-like, they would return?
From Cupid in Africa by P. C. Wren
The nun, her dove-like innocence devastated, has broiled like a chestnut amid the ashes of her convent,” etc.
From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by William Powell Frith
