Example Sentences

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Michael Fassbender stars as Callum Lynch, a death-row criminal who’s executed before our eyes, only to be brought back to life by a beautiful scientist in flawless red lipstick and a nunlike hairdo.

From Time • Dec. 19, 2016

Dickinson, the nunlike individualist, again filled the bill.

From New York Times • May 13, 2010

A council of crows sat to hear the amazing music and departed mystified, all but a nunlike raven, who found the beakless Caruso and adored him.

From Time Magazine Archive

She seemed to be imploring forgiveness with her tearful orbs outlined with blue against the nunlike delicacy of her skin.

From The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan by Douglas, Frances

She had a nunlike look, utterly pure, but with a spiritual fire in those shining eyes of hers for all these men, who were like children in her hands.

From Now It Can Be Told by Gibbs, Philip