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Example sentences for "anything like"

  • You don't happen to want the same girl he wants, or anything like that?

  • We won't fix like for company, eat in the room or anything like that.

  • Ach, I guess I'll have to give up thinkin' about doin' anything like that.

  • What did he care for Tinplate, profits, business, or anything like that!

  • He thought not at all of anything like that.

  • The poet who lives in anything like an heroic or Homeric age has it in his power to mingle the elements of mythology and of human story--Phaeacia and Ithaca--in any proportion he pleases.

  • I had never read, never dreamed of anything like them, and they filled my whole horizon with glory and with joy.

  • The notion of anything like an intervention of the literary and scientific class in political affairs touched a certain jealousy which is always to be looked for in the positive and practical man.

  • In the larger field of his speculation, the value of his thought is seriously impaired by the absence of anything like a philosophy of society as a whole.

  • Want any witch hazel or anything like that?

  • But I really hated to think it, for it seems an awful thing to have a Yale man guilty of anything like that.

  • Land knows Zoeth and me would miss her awful, but we wouldn't let that stand in the way--not of anything like this.

  • More'n all, he mustn't have any scares or shocks or anything like that.

  • But I mean I think we should not depend upon it; it should not change our plans or spoil your life work, or anything like that.

  • I had no time to buy uncomfortable boots, or anything like that.

  • It isn't as if there was an English garrison, or anything like that.

  • And when the victim weighs fourteen stone, against the high priest's eight and a half, it behooves the latter to be circumspect, if the sacrifice is to be anything like a success.

  • Why should you think that I would be anything like that?

  • He tells me it's his masterpiece, and that he will never do anything like it again.

  • The observation was new to him, and he seemed to be interested in it, as he always was in anything like chiromancy or metoscopy.

  • I am quite sure that, while naturally intelligent, anything like a mind stored with varied knowledge was something utterly unknown to them.

  • And if the publishers (excepting Barnum) had ever shown me anything like thanks or kindness for gratuitous zeal and interest which I took, I could have greatly aided them.

  • She explained that where she came from on Coal River, anything like a picture was a great curiosity; also that her friends believed that all the pictures in books, newspapers, &c.

  • Daisy sunk down on her knees there; the sky and the stars were more homelike than anything else; and she felt so strange, so miserable, as her little heart had never known anything like before.

  • We shall have to have a stuff dress made for you--I reckon you have not one of anything like a Puritan cut.

  • So timid and nervous had he become, however, that the slightest indication of anything like a suspicion that his secrets were known, threw him into a sweat.

  • Several of the men began to suffer in their ears, noses, feet and other extremities, and the bunks were soon the only places in which it was found possible to exist in anything like comfort.

  • Three days I'd had of it, mind you, with never a show to put in any defense, or plead guilty but sorry, or anything like that.

  • Course you might say we wa'n't any Rescue Mission, or anything like that; but somehow this was diff'rent.

  • It encouraged the prolixity which was the great curse of the Middle Ages, and the deficient sense of form and scanty presence of models prevented the observance of anything like a proper scheme.

  • And can we put as many, or anything like as many, men into the field?

  • Is our discipline equal--or anything like equal--to that of the Prussians?

  • The sentries will not be anything like so thick, upon that side.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anything like" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anything about; anything but; anything except; anything from; anything good; anything like; anything should; anything that; anything whatever; anything wrong; black woman; eyed goddess; for thou; full description; high fever; left alone; next chapter; once told; other modes; other troops; present value; seems proper; sharp turn; unhusked rice; various depths; with some