childlike

Example Sentences

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Lang: I’m doing the same childlike nature, just discovering with them.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

“Although I feel it’s a very mature room, it also feels like a little girl’s room in a way. So I kind of feel like my childlike self in this room,” she explained.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 16, 2025

They’re faster, stronger and in some cases smarter than the average person, but childlike nevertheless, testing the extent of their agency.

From Salon • Dec. 14, 2025

And Kenny Scharf’s cartoon-infused painting and sculpture are paeans to arrested development that are about as capable of engendering childlike wonder as a tax return.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

I knew at exactly what point their faces would fall when my seemingly simple and childlike strategy would reveal itself as a devastating and irrevocable course.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan