lionlike

Example Sentences

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And who wouldn’t respond to a mask that culminates in a fierce lionlike mane made from layers of yarn, startling in blinding blue, or one of white crochet surrounded by gravity-defying hot-pink yarn tresses?

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2020

Douglass’ strong features project relentless determination and lionlike pride.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2016

Douglass’s strong features project relentless determination and lionlike pride.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2016

It was a big moment for Claude Cross, the shrewd, quiet Boston lawyer who had succeeded posturing, lionlike Lloyd Paul Stryker as defense counsel for Hiss.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had recovered his color: ruddy, or even lionlike, she thought.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman