Example Sentences

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He was dealing with sickness rather than mortal wounds, but that scorching sense of the dragonish burns into Kurzel’s “Macbeth.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2015

The illuminated sky of the final version is far less dragonish, with less of what Yeats called "the cold and rook-delighting heaven."

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2011

She and I both knew the dragonish thing to do.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

He had a dragonish look, to me; and I tried never to meet his glance.

From A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) by Larcom, Lucy

The arms and legs of the stools here and there on the rug were carven in grotesque imitation of reptiles and animals of the ultra dragonish mode.

From The Prince of India — Volume 01 by Wallace, Lewis