vulturine
Example Sentences
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Mandelup follows Tester as he is scouted by a vulturine manager, who we only meet once, and, believe me, once is enough.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2019
His eyes were the worst – glittery and vulturine.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2018
Even Erdrich seems tested by Romeo with his "caved, tubercular-looking chest, scrawny arms, a vulturine head, and perpetually stoked-up eyes."
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2016
The fierce arrows shot from the Gandiva, endued with great energy and furnished with vulturine wings, car, pierce even mountains.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Virata Parva by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
Hume once demolished one of these vulturine nurseries and found that it weighed over eight maunds, that is to say about six hundredweight.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Douglas Dewar
