leonine

Example Sentences

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He comes to the Proms with the Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra, to play Mahler's leonine fifth symphony.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2025

What could be more leonine than a personal inferno?

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2024

“Lady Killer” stars the leonine Jean Gabin as Lucien, a womanizing legionnaire.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023

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

They moved like a silent grieving army, and all who saw them drew back in fear and awe at the looks on their leonine faces.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell