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2. Adjective. Similar to that of a sparrow; as, a sparrowlike bill, a sparrowlike voice. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sparrowlike

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sparrowlike

Literary usage of Sparrowlike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"It were sparrowlike and childish after our deliverance to explode into twittering laughter and caper-cutting, and utterly to forget the imminent hawk on ..."

2. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"It were sparrowlike and childish after our deliverance to explode into twittering laughter and caper-cutting, and utterly to forget the imminent hawk on ..."

3. The Varieties of religious experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the by William James (1902)
"It were sparrowlike and childish after our deliverance to explode into twittering laughter and caper-cutting, and utterly to forget the imminent hawk on ..."

4. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Introductory Chapters on by Frank Michler Chapman (1912)
"Very different, sparrowlike in appearance; upperparts dark grayish brown, finely streaked with black; wings and tail dark grayish brown; under- parts white, ..."

5. Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835 by James Anthony Froude (1882)
"I must rather hasten to observe that I found the orator at Pentonville sitting sparrowlike, companionless, in— not on—the housetop alone. ..."

6. Bird-life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds by Frank Michler Chapman (1901)
"The young males and females are sparrowlike in appearance, the upper parts being dark grayish brown, the under parts white, streaked with dusky. ..."

7. Modern German Literature by Benjamin Willis Wells (1901)
"Goethe was to him a "good fellow, somewhat frivolous and sparrowlike." Indeed, the younger poet fell at first quite under the influence of this momentarily ..."

8. How to Study Birds: A Practical Guide for Amateur Bird-lovers and Camera-hunters by Herbert Keightley Job (1910)
"... a bird of about the same size and sparrowlike in appearance, with more or less black on throat and breast and buff color on the sides of head and neck. ..."

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