Example sentences for: feline

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

  • Mehta's writerly persona, a disarming mixture of the feline and the naive, is perfect for relating the little scandals that worried The New Yorker in the late '70s (plagiarism, frozen turbot), the drama of finding a worthy candidate to succeed the aging Shawn as editor, the purchase of the magazine by the evil Si Newhouse ("We all took fright") and the resultant plague of Gottliebs and Florios visited upon it, and what he sees as the final debacle: Tinaji.

  • Why are we suddenly treated on page 16 to an incomplete list of -ine words ( bovine, feline, lupine , etc.)?

  • It could be some kind of feline intestinal blockage.

  • When it is played badly, however, some listeners agree that there is a feline similarity to caterwauling , from the Middle English caterwawen , an uttering of a discordant shrieking, as from a cat.

  • Aquí hay gato encerrado `There is a locked-up cat here'=`I smell a rat,' meter gato por liebre `to put a cat in the place of a hare'=`to be taken in,' and buscar tres pies al gato `to look for three feet on the cat'=`to look for trouble' are three feline phrases.


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