leonine

Example Sentences

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What could be more leonine than a personal inferno?

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024

What looked on the picture to be a long, leonine dangling tail with a bob at the end could have been a shadow cast by vegetation.

From Reuters • Jul. 21, 2023

Encountering again the fuzz and warmth of Mandela’s leonine tones, Stengel realized something: He had a podcast on his hands.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022

She restrains from belting these lines out with her usual, leonine force, finding delicate new tones that double down on the song's devastating emotional impact.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2021

Its body was leonine, deep yellow, with paws as large as Christopher’s torso.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell