dovelike
Example Sentences
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“Seidel would have given us the makers of Auden’s tigerish blazer and dovelike shoe,” he writes, “but he was never impressed enough that Auden didn’t.”
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2015
In a recent event, no paraphernalia better demonstrated the timeless desire to fly than a team consisting of two men in white robes caparisoned in large, dovelike wings and halos.
From Time Magazine Archive
He interviewed Dictator Benito Mussolini month ago and that modern Caesar, instead of growling fresh warning to the world, suggested dovelike that President Roosevelt should arrange an arms limitation conference.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Assembly this week, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky angrily rejected the compromise plan, and just as vituperatively departed from Moscow's usual dovelike cooings at India.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was pleased with her counsel, directed a flattering look at him and began to assume the air he wanted her to assume—the dovelike.
From Manslaughter by Alice Duer Miller
