leonine

Example Sentences

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What could be more leonine than a personal inferno?

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024

A garment on the ground catches his eye; when he puts it on, a vest with leonine markings that matches the fabric around his waist, he seems imbued with a newfound power and responsibility.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2024

What looked on the picture to be a long, leonine dangling tail with a bob at the end could have been a shadow cast by vegetation.

From Reuters • Jul. 21, 2023

She restrains from belting these lines out with her usual, leonine force, finding delicate new tones that double down on the song's devastating emotional impact.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2021

No one else seemed to know quite what to say, and then Jasper was there — tall and leonine.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer