tigerishly
Example Sentences
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As is almost always the case with a Speak to the Manager, the cut was accentuated by deliberately obvious highlights, striping tigerishly up toward the crisp bristle atop the head.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
Goffin did brilliantly to fashion a match point – and woefully to squander it, before Nadal tigerishly got to a second tie-break, this time wrapping it up without fuss.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2017
He is tigerishly protective of their place in the spotlight — he said that he had a clause written into Ms. Kasler’s contract that prevents Ballard from hiring another designer without consulting her.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2011
After City won promotion and tore tigerishly into Premier League life the former chairman, Paul Duffen, told the Guardian that Bartlett had "provided the funding" to get the Tigers up.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2010
They pushed through the door, closed and bolted it, then, wheeling tigerishly, surveyed the room. hey saw no one.
From Astounding Stories, July, 1931 by Various
