childlike

Example Sentences

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It’s a source of both elemental mystery and childlike wonder.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026

In her tiny apartment in South Korea, where she lives alone, 78-year-old Bang Chun-ja spends her days with a childlike AI-powered doll she says she prefers to people.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

The palace added: "With her childlike perspective, her irony, her tenderness, and her inner demons, the author created a deeply moving world with which readers identified."

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Their excitement was almost childlike, and I mean that in the best possible way.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

But here she was, dewy and fresh, bespectacled, olive-skinned, almost childlike, smiling shyly at him and sucking a milkshake through a straw.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie