childlike

Example Sentences

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Spalding’s mellow, dancing bass plucks are a sound we know best from jazz, but are totally at home here, and her singing is guileless without being childlike.

From New York Times

“God, if you’re near me, send me three white butterflies,” she sings three-quarters into the LP, in a voice that’s almost childlike in its surging sincerity.

From New York Times

“When you look at him, there’s a part of him that still seems very childlike and it plays out in a lot of his choices.”

From Los Angeles Times

For a novel about Vietnam, there was little Vietnam in it, to say nothing of how Greene saw Vietnamese people: on the one hand, as childlike, and on the other, as background decor.

From Washington Post

And you’ll notice things are a little large in the land, too, so adults who maybe haven’t played in a while can engage with that childlike spirit.”

From Los Angeles Times