dove-like
Example Sentences
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In French, the word “pigeon” has two senses: a dove-like bird, but also a dupe, victim or fall guy.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2015
The three decanters boast an avian grace: the Swan's swooping body, the Flamingo's long slender neck and the Paloma's dove-like curves.
From Time Magazine Archive
He set up a dove-like moaning that was plainly a call for his mother as he lay sprawled out on the white sands.
From A Scout of To-day by Hornibrook, Isabel
Fate had given the youngster for a wife a little innocent, with kiss-curls, dove-like eyes, and a baby face, from which there spoke the pure soul of an angel.
From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various
And yet after all there was something about her, about her grey, dove-like dress and her gentleness, which smacked of Clapham.
From Chippinge Borough by Weyman, Stanley J.
