Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
sparrow in some way;vivacious ,chirpy ,frail , etc. - adjective Similar to that of a
sparrow ; as, a sparrowlike bill, a sparrowlike voice.
Etymologies
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Examples
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She dressed blandly and conservatively and was almost sparrowlike with long, thin arms and bony hands that would dart back and forth.
Unbearable Lightness Portia de Rossi 2010
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At the end of the row, Joe came to a tiny, sparrowlike man with silver hair and bushy black eyebrows.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994
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At the end of the row, Joe came to a tiny, sparrowlike man with silver hair and bushy black eyebrows.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Berendt, John 1994
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She chattered nonstop, sparrowlike, without ever seeming to pause for breath.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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She chattered nonstop, sparrowlike, without ever seeming to pause for breath.
Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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Though it had "popular prices" -- plain omelet, fifteen cents -- it had red and green bracket lights, mission-style tables, and music played by a sparrowlike pianist and a violinist.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Though it had "popular prices" -- plain omelet, fifteen cents -- it had red and green bracket lights, mission-style tables, and music played by a sparrowlike pianist and a violinist.
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It were sparrowlike and childish after our deliverance to explode into twittering laughter and caper-cutting, and utterly to forget the imminent hawk on bough.
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It were sparrowlike and childish after our deliverance to explode into twittering laughter and caper-cutting, and utterly to forget the imminent hawk on bough.
Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876
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As Moonface Martin, in the current revival of "Anything Goes," he uses his sparrowlike physique to garner big laughs.
The New Yorker newyorker.com 2011
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