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 vulturine nose, which smells nothing but corruption, is no credit to its possessor.

From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Kingsley, Charles

The man on his right was young, clean-shaven, and of a somewhat vulturine cast of countenance.

From The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)