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"Childlike" in a Sentence (12 examples)
His childlike laugh is charming.
I couldn't help smiling at her childlike frankness.
Her large, deep, blue eyes had a dreamy look, but a childlike smile still played round her mouth.
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm; A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form.
The king made appropriate adjustments for the vile being. The king knew the being's childlike mind would continue to lure him in. The vile being had a taste for that which he could not have and it clouded his sense of reality. He never saw it coming until it was too late. The fear and anger in the vile being's eyes was matched by the king's discrete nodding.
Yanni's childlike trust led him into a terrible trap.
Let's absolutely take care not to forget our childlike innocence.
I spent five years in university, which seemed like 500 childlike years.
They have a childlike joy to them, I find it admirable.
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According to the prevailing Danish rationale, Greenlanders were naïve and childlike, in need of protection and incapable of governing themselves.
Even Mario is given childlike mannerisms – running open-armed like a fearless toddler, whooping with delight – to convey playful innocence.
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