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How to use child-like in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word child-like? Here are some examples.

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My stomach was a tight knot of dread, fear and something very close to the child-like terror I used to feel for the dark.
Infants brighten up in her presence and mothers listen to her with almost child-like zealousness.
Milly, who had red hair which was always worn in a ponytail, and brown eyes, still had a child-like mentality.
He is trotted out to play a hulking but child-like soldier to no great effect.
The child-like simplicity of the slow movement is rendered as a lullaby, and the finale has punch without the application of brute force.
When you meet him, he's essentially a very large child who enjoys being child-like.
He was convinced of his intellectual prowess, yet possessed of a child-like sensitivity to criticism.
Therefore, as much as is possible, there should be an attitude of child-like simplicity where one is open to the unknown.
In Ontario and Saskatchewan, animal care councils have purchased child-like robots that open the door to talk to the public about livestock care.
She has a child-like curiosity about everything and a great ability to pick on things.
If buttercups are child-like, and bugbanes are adults, the baneberries are the crazy in-laws.
There's something very child-like about him.
Running can be simple and child-like and brilliant.
There's certainly a child-like quality about her.
Before the two could get on with their innocent, child-like play, however, a loud clap of thunder echoed throughout the skies, which had turned dark from a while ago.
At the film's beginning, the juvenile protagonists ride a Ferris wheel and fantasize about traveling to the sea, a child-like sentiment never to be repeated.
The little shy sounds of Schumann are constantly forgetting that they are shy or child-like and strutting out boastfully in an ineffective dash or prance.
To the dreamy melody of a Beethoven piano sonata, a child-like model rummaged through a trunk overflowing with clothes on a set designed as a girl's bedroom.
In general, he was not so much autistic as child-like, artlessly pleased with himself, insistent on being the centre of attention.
Jane Horrocks, all doe-eyed, child-like trustfulness, plays this perfectly.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He appeared to be singularly innocent and child-like for such an uncared-for waif.
I go in with him, and as we are coming out, I ask him child-like for a wafer.
His child-like face, with the soft, agate eyes, expressed only bewilderment.
Never did he seem so careless, our Scribe asserts, and so jovial and child-like in his joys.
But the other two were still older the blandishment of his child-like innocence.
Neither anticipate your years, nor lag child-like behind them.
His child-like imagination pictured wonderful creatures within, and the very impossibility of forcing entrance added a thousandfold to his desire to do so.
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