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

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

All that remained from before was his leonine white mane and his heavy silver cane.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende