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How to use catlike in a sentence

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Thereafter, she begins to exhibit catlike abilities, and chooses to use these for the good of mankind, revenge, and stealing a few trinkets.
Their big ears help them search for food and hear such enemies as catlike fossas.
A catlike civet known as a fossa prowls the rain forest of Madagascar's Ranomafana National Park.
As it was, his expression hardened, the catlike sharpness of his pupils glinting dangerously.
When Posey reached the far baseline boxed in with nowhere to go, the catlike Oliver batted the ball away, grabbed it, and bounded back downcourt.
Why is it that excessive plastic surgery always makes the victim appear catlike?
Its muzzle and ears were catlike and it slunk down the street with feline grace and fluidity.
Though their sleek torsos and short, limber legs may seem catlike, civet cats aren't really felines.
The light from the cigarette made his eyes glow in an eerie, unsettling fashion, causing the pupils to glow a strange, catlike yellow.
She has a catlike face with high, wide cheekbones, slanted brown eyes and full lips drawn around a small mouth.
She claims the kitten is just like her previous one, saying it loves water and jumped right into her bath, not very catlike.
I looked from one intently interested catlike face to another, suddenly embarrassed about how the confession would sound to them.
It was also home to animals that preyed on lemurs, among them the large, catlike fossa, which I was to encounter many times.
The boy approached him with the same swift catlike grace of a jaguar on the hunt.
Mr. Gershwin, a rather catlike man with an intelligent face and bristly whiskers, began.
He sometimes has the hip-shake, but never that lovely, slinky, catlike sexual menace we see here, that seductive creep.
He vaulted the fence that separated him from his backyard and landed catlike on the ground.
Howard softens his voice — he almost croons — and his Harvey moves catlike through the city, attended by a posse of boys who run errands for him.
I would try to steer clear of him, but, catlike, he would suddenly reappear, and disarm me with some Delmore Schwartz line about love or courage.
One of them has feathered wings, another a catlike appearance complete with a triangular nose and furry black tail, three have webbed fingers and gold, slitted eyes.
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Sucatash went with him, and, catlike, strove to throw himself from the saddle.
Salome heard the call and from her window looked with half-closed, catlike eyes upon the semi-naked, young fanatic.
He was as brown as a berry, and walked softly, with almost a catlike tread.
It was a six-legged, striped, catlike beast, not unordinary as interplanetary animals go.
The catlike creeping in between him and his constituents had also served to unhinge him.
His surefooted broncho scrambled catlike up steep inclines and slid in clouds of dust down breakneck hillsides of loose rubble.
As on the former occasion he overthrew the cauldron before leaping, sinuous and catlike, into the lower branches of the forest giant.
With catlike quickness Winford leaped behind the chart table.
The catlike movement brought him head and shoulders above the sill.
Then came a rush of catlike footfalls and a clatter of hoofs.
The second catlike quality that the lion has is that his tongue is rough.
The tiger has also many more of the catlike qualities than the lion has.
Its twigs bristle with dogs, cats, hyenas, and weasels, as well as lesser-known species such as somewhat catlike African genets.
The newcomer went quickly, with catlike tread, toward the girl.
Zelma tearing her clothes and, catlike, scratching her face with her beautiful, scented nails produced upon him a strong impression.
George may not have Captain Purnall's catlike swiftness, but he is all an artist to the tips of the broad fingers that play on the shunt-stops.
Tarzan, happily, was uninjured by the fall, alighting catlike upon all fours far outspread to take up the shock.
Carthoris, still clasping Thuvia tightly to his breast, came to the ground catlike, upon his feet, breaking the shock for the girl.
About his body there was a peculiar springiness, or resiliency, almost catlike, and a quick alertness as of one who lived in perpetual fear of things seen and unseen.
Sheeta, catlike, alighted upon four out-sprawled feet, the weight of the ape-man crushing him to earth, the long knife again imbedded in his side.
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