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Examples
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His pale blue eyes and craggy hawk-like features stood out amidst the sea of endless bodies as he stood like a rocky island in a heaving sea of humanity.
Kissed By Venus 2009
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His thin, hollowed-out face still had a hawk-like imperiousness to it, the silver hair swept back from a broad forehead that topped a high-bridged nose, intense brown eyes, and pale fleshy lips.
The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011
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While the government's goals are commendable, economists warn, the central bank shouldn't abandon its once hawk-like focus against inflation merely to help it achieve them.
Brazil Cuts Rates to Spark Growth Paulo Prada 2011
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It is fascinating to see how the fixed, hawk-like glare of his hypnotic portrait of Wellington has emerged from the softer and more psychologically subtle drawing of the same subject.
Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review Richard Holmes 2010
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It's a product of national self-loathing and, in our hawk-like vigilance for queue-jumpers, mutual loathing.
Vandalising an old master is bad, but not quite as evil as queue-jumping | David Mitchell 2011
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A hawk-like man with laser black eyes, Gul's animosity toward the United States is well known.
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He had a wadded-up face that had been left out in the sun too long until the creases were permanent, but thick lashes and hawk-like hazel eyes saved him from being butt-ugly.
SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010
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He had a wadded-up face that had been left out in the sun too long until the creases were permanent, but thick lashes and hawk-like hazel eyes saved him from being butt-ugly.
SILENT TRUTH SHERRILYN KENYON 2010
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Its skull had a deep, narrow bill armed with a powerful, hawk-like hook.
'Terror Birds': Ancient South American Creature Fought Like Muhammad Ali 2010
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Cutting a dash was the prerogative of the man who is standing by the rocks with a hawk-like look as he gazes down, as it were, the chimneypots of the village below beloved by William Wordsworth.
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