birdlike

Example Sentences

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Its main business is running and lifestyle shoes marked by a simple birdlike logo — the letter “A” turned sideways — that range from $80 to more than $200.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

An abbreviation of Archaeopteryx, a birdlike dinosaur, it started out making climbing harnesses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025

Straight backed and with birdlike poise, Homer French projects a pioneer self-sufficiency, as if she’d be equally capable of darning a sock, milking a goat or driving a horse-drawn cart.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

The researchers identified them as the birdlike raptor Citipes elegans; both lacked growth marks on the bones and so were probably less than 1 year old, weighing as much as a modern-day turkey.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023

I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile.

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth