tigerish
Example Sentences
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With gross domestic product per capita on par with Japan and a stagnant population, South Korea’s tigerish growth days are behind it.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
Ms. Graves “was a tigerish ‘Choleric,’” Jennifer Dunning wrote in a 1987 review in The Times, “with those long, powerful arms of hers coming into play in the ballet’s final moments.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
Fitted with jam-jar spectacles off the pitch, and thick contact lenses on it, Stiles' eye for a tigerish tackle instantly improved.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2020
That said, no man can resist her dark, magnetic eyes while her impulsive, passionate nature sometimes seems tigerish.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2019
There was no tigerish growl now in his tormentor’s voice.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
