dovelike

Example Sentences

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“Seidel would have given us the makers of Auden’s tigerish blazer and dovelike shoe,” he writes, “but he was never impressed enough that Auden didn’t.”

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2015

Reason for these amenities was that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had sent Il Duce a dovelike message on the Spanish question.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a recent event, no paraphernalia better demonstrated the timeless desire to fly than a team consisting of two men in white robes caparisoned in large, dovelike wings and halos.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Assembly this week, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky angrily rejected the compromise plan, and just as vituperatively departed from Moscow's usual dovelike cooings at India.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the lovely moon that lovelike Hovered over the wandering, tired Earth, her bosom grey and dovelike, Hovering beautiful as a dove….

From Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir