lionlike

Example Sentences

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Douglass’ strong features project relentless determination and lionlike pride.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2016

Douglass’s strong features project relentless determination and lionlike pride.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2016

On Aug. 29 a pair of whimsical, 12-foot-high fiberglass dogs will stand guard like 21st-century Komainu, those mythical lionlike statues commonly placed at the entrance to Japanese shrines to ward off evil spirits.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2010

But after his lionlike complaints, the President offered lamblike recommendations.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had recovered his color: ruddy, or even lionlike, she thought.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman