sheeplike

Example Sentences

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If we just succumb sheeplike to the luxuries of a consumerist society, there is a whole magic kit that lies there gathering dust.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2018

Most of us complied, a startled and sheeplike herd.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2015

Now they are a hipster habit, a sheeplike folly, a permanent pretension.

From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2014

The last of his family, weak, lazy, amiable, vicious, the Prince "had gained nothing from his very distinguished birth but the melancholy grace that marked his tall person, and long, slightly sheeplike face."

From Time Magazine Archive

It resembled the face of a sheep, and the voice, too, had a sheeplike quality.

From "1984" by George Orwell