lionlike
Example Sentences
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And who wouldn’t respond to a mask that culminates in a fierce lionlike mane made from layers of yarn, startling in blinding blue, or one of white crochet surrounded by gravity-defying hot-pink yarn tresses?
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2020
Douglass’ strong features project relentless determination and lionlike pride.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 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
Though lionlike in aspect, Shepilov was a mild man and an appropriate mouthpiece for the soft words of coexistence with which the Soviet leaders were then screening their far-flung operations.
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
