Sentence examples for like a jackal from inspiring English sources

I felt a lot more like a jackal!

Back at the Pavilion, residents had returned "smiling like a jackal," Mr. Gibson said.

He reminded me, in a not entirely unlikable way, of an animal busy in carrion, like a jackal.

For instance he describes Mr. Brown's recording of "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" as "a most peculiar ad for virility: a promise that it will make you alone, depraved and howling like a jackal".

A girl married off to a wealthy expat, who turns out to be a psychopath and sleeps under her bed at night howling like a jackal, is depicted actually as a jackal rather than as a man.

He coaxes and wheedles and glad-hands until he senses weakness or changing fortunes and then turns on you like a jackal.

It was like asking a jackal not to feast on a zebra's entrails.

The earlier epizootic in kudu was most likely initiated by a jackal bite, as peaks of rabies incidence in kudu and cattle coincided with peaks in jackals, although the incidence in kudu appeared to far exceed that in jackals [ 8].

"I run around like a crazed jackal," he says.

Hoover called Anderson "a jackal".

A jackal of the battlefield.