Her birdlike head was fluttering in agreement with the remarks he was making, and his steps were jaunty.
I read the placards in the window while Grandma discussed our birdlike friend.
The stream lines of the body tapered birdlike to the horizontal rudder twenty feet in the rear.
Its distinguishing variation was a somewhat wider bulge in the forward part of its birdlike body.
Moreau was a tiny, wrinkled creature, with birdlike ways and a tiny, birdlike mind.
Mildred hoped that these would be her last visitors, but she was mistaken, for a couple of harmless maiden ladies, rejoicing in the cognomen of Ortolan, took their places, and chirruped to Mildred in shrill little birdlike voices.
She was fatigued with her journey and the long vigil she had kept the preceding night, and felt a little discontented with the girl's birdlike activity.
She explained herself volubly if not fluently in broken English, pausing every now and then with a charming birdlike toss of her little black head and, "You say so, no?
They talked for an hour, rather Diane talked and Adelle did her best to understand the rapid, lisping, birdlike notes of the foreigner.
Vainly he strove to show himself from every point of view, laboring to impart to his twofold predatory, birdlike beaked face an appearance of modesty.
And even the very least among them, a nonentity utterly ignored by the others, raised to the ceiling his birdlike features and looked as if nothing had entered.
One of the judges, a man with a birdlike face, smiled, but Annas was unmoved.
A merry smile flitted over all the haughty faces: and he of the birdlike countenance even laughed.
He speaks so loudly," remarked he of the birdlike face mockingly and ingratiatingly peering into the eyes of Kaiaphas.
But she was very shy about her "one accomplishment," as she laughingly called it, and could rarely be induced to whistle for others, though she seldom worked without filling the house with thatbirdlike melody.
Only the flickering flames of the logs blazing upon the andirons, lighted the room as the birdlike notes began to issue from the girl's lips.
With good luck they might be able to hover birdlike over the peaks, canyons and plateaus for five days.
At 750 revolutions the car was rocking and lurching as if it would soar birdlike into the air.
Only one person was in the shop, a small and birdlike man to whom Henry Harper presented Mr. Horrobin's letter.
The decreasing length of each plane, the first eighty feet, the second sixty and the last forty feet, did not detract from the majesty of the structure and only added to its birdlike appearance.
There was only the hint of a check in the downward sweep of the aeroplane and as a din of cheers sounded ahead the birdlike Flyer sprang forward on a new course.
A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the entire body.
An order of herbivorous dinosaurs with birdlikecharacteristics in the skeleton, esp.
Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp.
A genus of Dinosauria found in the Jurassic formation, and remarkable for having several birdlike features.
Her ears burned like fire, and her bright, birdlike eyes were round and scared.
There was a little cool inflection of contempt in Greta's high, sweet, birdlike tones that had been lacking before.
And a bright spark of naughty triumph snapped in each of her birdlike black eyes.
The man in the corner cocked his funny birdlike head well on one side and looked at her, highly amused evidently at her perplexity.
Seeing a pause in the conversation, a small woman in pink satin made a swoop for the seat next the bride, and eyed her with a bright, birdlike smile.
The birdlike eyes roved towards Martin, who had just entered the room with the other men, and subjected him to a curious scrutiny.
In fact, there was something strikingly birdlike about his face.
Never had her voice been sweeter and truer; never had she sung with such birdlike clearness, with such abandon and pleasure.
Each night when the mail train came in, Aunt Cheerful's lamp flashed its friendly message through the pines; each night her birdlike voice carried its invitation into the dark of the lane.
He thrilled all over with curiosity, and his birdlike head protruded further and further from behind the door.
He held his head in a birdlike fashion, and birdlike, too, was the pecking motion with which, in conversation, he threw out his objections and retorts.
He stood in the pouring rain and looked first one way, then the other, with a quick birdlike scrutiny, but as far as his eyes could pierce he saw only an empty desolation of waters.
He whistled over the job cheerily and tunelessly, glancing now and again with a keen, birdlike intelligence towards the motionless figure twenty yards away that sat with bent head broiling in the sun.
Yes, he's in a hurry," said Adam, with one of his birdlike glances.
Adam's keen andbirdlike eyes nearly leapt from his head.
As if to accord with his mood, Alice began a sweet birdlike song, full of tender pathos, and of quieting sympathy.
Valentine Simmons took his familiar place in the glass enclosure, revolving his chair to fix on Gordon a birdlike attention.
His muslin bow had slipped awry on the polished, immaculate bosom of his shirt, and it gave him a slightly ridiculous, birdlike expression.
He hadn't suspected that the horse was Silver, but instinctively he had sounded the birdlike trill that Silver knew.
The birdliketrill sounded again, nearer this time.
She had her mother's birdlike tilt to her head when she spoke, her eyes were still bright, and her complexion good.
For an instant the dark, cavernous face above me was mated by that other of birdlikelightness and beauty.
The gipsy woman kept her ferocious, birdlike stare on me, with an occasional stealthy glance at Pollie.
A lean, tall, birdlike figure, the hair on his head still showing traces of auburn, disengaged itself from a knot of charmed spectators.
The gipsy's birdlike eyes pierced and darted from one to the other of us, her skinny hand concealing her mouth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "birdlike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aquiline; avian; dovelike; nesting
