Example sentences for: childlike

How can you use “childlike” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A switch to full color accompanies the first words, spoken in a childlike voice-over: "It might not be easy to talk to kids today ...

  • It's possible that Besieged is meant to be vaguely allegorical: The African is seduced by the crumbling decadence of Europe while the European falls for the childlike simplicity of Africa.

  • Schulz would set you up with a couple of tiny tots speaking in childlike innocence for three panels, then come out of the wild blue yonder with one of them sounding suddenly like a middle-aged college professor in the grip of a nervous breakdown.

  • His grim message about a regressive human impulse to act childlike seemed to undermine his simultaneous call for resistance--especially since he emphasized that any struggle by the victims of the Nazis was pointless without outside help.

  • Some of these terms go to the opposite extreme, suggesting a warm and fuzzy, childlike relationship that seems all too naively trusting, as if Little Red Riding Hood really could trust the wolf dressed as her grandmother.


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