childlike

How To Use childlike In A Sentence

• By his grace, we will follow the sound of the megaphone back to childlike longings for him and for home. Christianity Today
• His voice had suddenly taken on a childlike quality as he began talking quick and excitedly.
• The young woman was sitting forward in her seat, a look of almost childlike curiosity on her face.
• Old Ebbits looked at me in childlike wonder, while Zilla sneered openly at the absurdity of my question. THE WHITE MAN'S WAY
• Her behaviour was a peculiar mixture of the sophisticated and the childlike.
• Few neighborhood rituals in Manhattan are more beguiling than to be present as roustabouts pump helium into the balloons that give such a childlike lift to the Macy's parade.
• I observe Barry Diller, with his powerful, vulnerable skull that conveys the air of a Picasso, with his smile that's habitually so melancholic but which, now that I've stopped pestering him about his memories of Paramount, his tussles with Murdoch, his conversion to teleshopping, has become curiously childlike. In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V)
• It was merely a gauche expression of a feeling of ownership, a childlike discovery of proprietary rights where the immediate and instinctive reaction is to take the toy apart.
• It's a word he uses a lot in his almost childlike rediscovery of happiness and contentment.
• In his own way, though, he brought comfort to her with his childlike clarity, which gave him a philosopher's profundity.