vulturine

Example Sentences

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Mandelup follows Tester as he is scouted by a vulturine manager, who we only meet once, and, believe me, once is enough.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2019

His eyes were the worst – glittery and vulturine.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2018

Even Erdrich seems tested by Romeo with his "caved, tubercular-looking chest, scrawny arms, a vulturine head, and perpetually stoked-up eyes."

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2016

The fierce arrows shot from the Gandiva, endued with great energy and furnished with vulturine wings, car, pierce even mountains.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Virata Parva by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan

The general contour and flight was far more vulturine and less falcon-like than we had expected.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.