eaglelike

Example Sentences

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When she opens her arms, her wingspan is eaglelike; when she flares her hands, her fingers become talons.

From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2012

Per-gish is now a professional fishing guide, with an eaglelike knowledge of the river and the seasonal arrivals of steelhead, eel and salmon.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2012

In them he shows something of Winslow Homer's eaglelike capacity for observing and seizing the beauties of nature.

From Time Magazine Archive

My face is mournftilly long, in the classical Indian manner; my profile suggests one of those beak-nosed Mayan sculptures— the eaglelike face upturned, open-mouthed, against the deserted, primitive sky.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

Instead of the repose that characterizes the faces of the blind, her eaglelike countenance bore the marks of fretful, sullen, caged, almost savage energy.

From Sight to the Blind by Furman, Lucy