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 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)

Usually it keeps to rocky hills and mountains, over which it beats with a steady, sailing, vulturine flight.

From Birds of the Indian Hills by Dewar, Douglas