witchlike
Example Sentences
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But with Petrenko a tall, animated presence on the podium — bouncing up and down, shimmying, and hypnotically curling the long fingers of his left hand, witchlike — it was a pleasant evening.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2022
Once, Thoreau wrote, a frequenter of the woods passed Zilpah’s house and claimed to have heard her muttering to herself, witchlike, over a gurgling pot — “Ye all are bones, bones!”
From Washington Post • Nov. 28, 2021
Along comes the witchlike image of Vittoria to embody every teenager’s ambivalent urge to blow up their complacent home.
From Slate • Aug. 29, 2020
"Good luck on your very scary journey," says a witchlike creature, in a businesslike way, to a brave little girl.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2011
We photographed the wind-swept cypress trees, beaten and twisted into witchlike shapes by the free Pacific breezes.
From Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway by Gladding, Effie Price
