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- adjective Reminiscent of a
hawk .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was tall and clean shaven, with chunks of wavy brown hair sweeping back from features that could only be described as hawklike.
Firehorse Diane Lee Wilson 2006
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He shoved his lean, hawklike face into the very center of the slimy, squirming mass, and with his several ancient fangs bit into the heart and the life of the matter.
The Water Baby 2010
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Ms. Success was tall with a hawklike nose and enormous brown eyes that made her look slightly cartoonish.
Odd Girl In Jo Whittemore 2011
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Instead of the generous spread of surface with which it had taken the air, it was now a lean and hawklike monoplane balanced on long and exceedingly narrow wings.
Winged Blackmail 2010
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His skin was the same color as the sand, and his features were hawklike.
Crimson Wind Diana Pharaoh Francis 2011
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Ms. Success was tall with a hawklike nose and enormous brown eyes that made her look slightly cartoonish.
Odd Girl In Jo Whittemore 2011
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His eyes were sharp and piercing…and his thin, hawklike nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision.
Casting the Detectives: Crime Fiction's Biggest Movie Stars Monika Anderson 2012
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He shoved his lean, hawklike face into the very center of the slimy, squirming mass, and with his several ancient fangs bit into the heart and the life of the matter.
THE WATER BABY 2010
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John Milway emailed to tell us how he'd tried and failed to identify a hawklike bird he'd seen from his garden.
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That hawklike appendage was the longest in the family.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
yarb commented on the word hawklike
As he spoke, he stroked the bridge of his hawklike nose with his bent forefinger.
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, bk 2, ch. 1
August 19, 2008
yarb commented on the word hawklike
The "klik" in this word is visually pleasing.
August 19, 2008