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Example sentences for "hawklike"

Lexicographically close words:
hawkbill; hawked; hawker; hawkers; hawking; hawks; hawksbill; hawkweed; hawl; hawn
  1. The hawklike yet benevolent and illuminating look he gave her recalled the man at Silliston whom she had thought a carpenter though he was dressed now in a warm suit of gray wool, and wore a white, low collar.

  2. They had their father’s fierce, hawklike profile, softened by youth, and the appalling height and robustness due to the freedom and fresh air of a nomadic existence.

  3. Then a grey-haired man with a hawklike face Read from a list each rider's place.

  4. From the back of the car Mrs. Devar watched them with a hawklike intentness that showed how thoroughly those "forty winks" snatched while in the Wyndcliff had restored her flagging energies.

  5. Cynthia fastened on to the hesitating denial with the hawklike pounce of some barrister famous for merciless cross-examination of a hostile witness.

  6. They were practically alone at the mouth of the mine, Fairchild with a laugh dying on his lips, Rodaine with all the hate and anger and futile malice that a human being can know typified in his scarred, hawklike features.

  7. Squint Rodaine scratched his hawklike nose with his thumb and nodded.

  8. The nose was large, distinctively Roman, yielding him a hawklike appearance, but it was his eyes which fascinated me.

  9. The leader of the party had a proud, hawklike face, and as he strode ahead, Frank's eyes kept returning fascinatedly to that profile.

  10. Over the sharp, hawklike features of the High Priest Cinto passed an expression of anger, and he made an involuntary step forward.

  11. He noticed now the hawklike profile of the Contessa di Monaldeschi.

  12. The nostrils of her hawklike nose flared proudly.

  13. His high, hawklike features and snaky black hair bore the mark of that unknown historic thing which is crudely called Celtic, but which is probably far older than the Celts, whoever they were.

  14. And folding his arms and throwing back his lean, hawklike face, he haughtily confronted the man with the formal frock-coat and the eccentric elbow.

  15. The adults capture their food on the wing, and are hawklike in the agility with which they turn and dodge in pursuit of their active prey.

  16. The flight is easy and powerful, and the food is caught by a hawklike plunge.


  17. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hawklike" 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