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Example sentences for "like being"

  • I like being bitten, partly for the same reason as I like being pinched, because if spontaneous it is a sign of my partner's amorousness and the biting never seems too hard.

  • Or rather," he added magnificently, "like being on Cleopatra's galley at Actium.

  • How do you think you'll like being a Yankee again?

  • It's like being on the Victory at Trafalgar, as far as conspicuousness goes," said Harry on his arrival.

  • It isn't theories and experiments, of course, but it's like being a part of the hub of the universe.

  • I like being a second fiddle and I like the North.

  • Of course I know what you mean, but I don't like being hurried.

  • Illustration: And there, leaning against a moss-grown crumbling tree, was a spirit-like being out of another world.

  • And there, in the midst of this carpet of blue, leaning against a moss-grown crumbling tree, was a spirit-like being out of another world!

  • Of course he took it now, and even held it a moment; he didn't like being dismissed, and was thinking of pretexts to linger.

  • It would be absurd for me to pretend that I don't like being here.

  • And I like being able to hire other folks to make it their business to keep me comfortable.

  • Maybe it hadn't been such a crazy aspiration to want to be Emperor--sort of like being President of the Standard Oil Company to-day.

  • It's like being poor, or anything disagreeable of that sort.

  • I don't know if it was any comfort to him, but I knew from his face that Lydia must have said no, and I thought perhaps he wouldn't like being alone.

  • I don't like being kissed by men," she said.

  • But Mildred didn't like being laughed at.

  • I'm glad to be thinner, I didn't like being so fat.

  • If you don't like being married, do you have to stay?

  • Uncle Robert says if you don't like being married, you can't stop.

  • It is like being in gaol, word of honour!

  • Petit bonhomme, it is like being on the rack," she had gasped.

  • I don’t like being a jellyfish,” Vevi complained.

  • Looking down from here is like being in an airplane.

  • It’s like being in a forest fire--only colder,” Vevi murmured uneasily.

  • Rude Conception of the Creator as a man-like being in Agassiz's Hypothesis of Creation.

  • I like being blessed on my birthday, seen off into my new year with encouragement and smiles.

  • But I say, Mr Jack, this is like being in a mine, and it must be fiery, as they call it, being so hot.

  • It's like being a blind horse in a clay mill, going round and round and round all his life.

  • Why, it's like being fast to a whale," cried the doctor.

  • I expect he doesn't like being beaten, poor boy.

  • Like being caught up to the Gates of Paradise.

  • I never felt anything so delicious, and so like being a goddess reclining on a wind-blown cloud.

  • She said that half the fun of motoring was to sit by the man at the wheel and share his impressions, like being in the forefront of battle, or going to the first performance of a play, or being in at the death with a hunt.

  • He seems to forget that he is a celebrity, and generally doesn't like being reminded of the fact, but he was pleased that Mrs. Tupper had read about him in the papers from time to time, and had never forgotten his face.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like being" 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:
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