leonine

Example Sentences

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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

Magazines often shoot him in profile; his striking, leonine features call to mind the dreamboats of Old Hollywood, like Cary Grant by way of Versace.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2022

The series was created by American writer David Jenkins and produced by the prolific Taika Waititi, who also stars as Blackbeard, to whom he brings a leonine grace.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 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, the skin stretched across its lean frame the pale pink color of something that hadn’t seen true sunlight in years.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray