I done 'spress mahself in de most disproportionate language what I knows how, an' yet it seems laik some pussons cain't understand de appreciableness ob simplisosity.
It also perhaps explains how the other day, when he had been speaking more severely than usual to Laik Ali, he put his arm paternally on his shoulder and saidLaik Ali must forgive him, for he was only following his instructions.
Of Laik Ali he spoke very highly, said he was a young man of good thought and good language, and would become a great Minister like his father.
I trust that Laik Ali may become Diwan, for, under good guidance at starting, he may make a very good minister.
It is not only from Laik Ali that I know this, but from everybody I have spoken to.
In any case he promised to talk the whole matter over with Laik Ali, and I shall be surprised if Trevor is not removed and a change of attitude insisted on with Cordery.
I said I could not answer certainly, but I believed Laik Ali considered him to be among his friends.
I cannot conceive that Laik Ali should have done anything so foolish, especially when he knew from me that Lord Ripon was going to give him a full hearing, and was favourably inclined.
He said he was sure it was Laik Ali who had had the thing published in the ‘Statesman’; but I assured him that to the best of my belief it was not so.
A more interesting visitor was Laik Ali, the young Salar Jung, who has succeeded to his father’s title.
Read up the Hyderabad Blue Books (those given me by Laik Ali).
Dey was sayin' only las' night, dat it seemed laik dem boys nevah goin' t' come.
When he gets a bit owder, he can laik at sodgers wi' it.
Dat's a mighty cold country in Shebeara, an' I laik warm wedder.
Dat Miss Nestor shore will laik her present," he murmured.
An' I'll be mighty keerful ob it' laik Massa Tom tole me.
Jest laik some ob de old mahogany furniture dat was in our fambily down Souf.
No, sah, Massa Tom, he seemed laik he was more special interested in mah mule, Boomerang.
Perfesser Henderson he done jumped our boat ober it laik a hunter jumps his boss ober a fence.
It's jestlaik it done happened once befo' when Bert made a bigger house.
An' de train rocks so, laik a cradle, dat I done most upsot ebery time.
Make a kite, an' take Snoop up in de air laik yo' brother Bert done once?
An' I'd laik de bes' in de wohld ter see my ole mammy ergain.
I had ten befo' her but 'peared laiknone ob dem tuk sich a hole on ma haht de way she did.
Massa Cap'n say when it's 'venient fer yer he laik ter hab yer kum ter see 'Miral Farragut.
Sometimes he's restless, an' don't sleeplaik he oughter.
He's goin' laik my mule Boomerang does when he's comm' home t' dinnah.
Tain't laik we was a autermobiler, er a electricity car, but we sho' hab been goin' sence we started.
He may go forward or he may go backward, jest laik them Australian boomerangs.
He run laik he were goin' home t' a stable full ob oats, an' dat's how I got heah so quick.
I knowed it were yo', an' I didn't laik de looks ob dat man.
And he looks jes laik a lover comin' to de house," announced Julia, one of the waiting-maids.
Looks laik she cut out fer 'n ole maid," declared a gray-haired mammy.
Pears laik everybody been daid and buried but Mas'r Louis," said old Chloe.
It's a place suffin laik Gomeonaway--or Goonaway, or suffin' laik dat.
Po' Boomerang he's gittin' old jest samelaik I be.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laik" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
