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How to use birdlike in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word birdlike? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Thus a blonde stripper with pasties in Act II became the petite, birdlike creature in white in this section.
Everything from the thunderous Wagnerian music to the performers' skin-tight unitards and birdlike headdresses reinforces the show's sleek, aerial character.
And its graceful, birdlike presence has enhanced the carriers' image. In this section End of a dream?
Archaeopteryx was a true bird, because it had a birdlike skull, perching foot, fully-formed flight feathers, a modern-looking elliptical wing, a furcula and avian lung design.
Alma Hitchcock, the times I saw her, was a frail, birdlike woman who looked angry about her infirmity.
It has been suggested that herbivorous dinosaurs swallowed large stones that collected in a birdlike gizzard grinding the poorly masticated herbage.
The birdlike female vendors speak only if spoken to, except when softly singsonging in a dialect that sounds like Navajo.
A DINOSAUR identified as a cousin of the Velociraptor is the largest ever found to have well-preserved birdlike wings, say Scottish scientists.
At the time, paleontologists were speculating that some dinosaurs might have had feathers because they seemed to have a number of other birdlike characteristics.
On its fifth page the paper stated that the dromaeosaur-like tail on a birdlike creature suggested a previously unknown element in the evolution of birds from landbound dinosaurs.
Some, indeed, were a strange mixture of humanoid and avian, with the body seemingly of human construction, yet possessing a definitely birdlike head.
Examples from Classical Literature
His head was drawn into his shoulders, which were crumpled things of birdlike bones.
She is an infinitely old woman, for the most part birdlike, chirrupy, and wonderfully alive.
Here sat Entwistle senior, stone-deaf, almost blind, but with his eighty-year-old wits still bright and birdlike.
This resemblance was furthered by the fact that the man's profile was birdlike.
Little jets of laughter bubbled from her round, birdlike throat.
She hovered round him, birdlike, intent on his every movement.
Other calls were froglike, humanlike and birdlike in quality.
She was still scrutinizing him, her head, birdlike, upon one side.
The birdlike features which had begun to relax hardened once more.
But the clear, birdlike tones were comfort to one harassed wanderer.
A little laugh, birdlike in its happiness, rippled from her.
Once or twice I heard a faint pitter-patter like the feet of the dog going hither and thither on the sand far below me, and there were more birdlike sounds, but that was all.
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