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Example sentences for "like many"

  • It had a false floor, like many houses of the time, but there was no thought of concealment here.

  • Captain Barlow drove his ship till she shook to her centre, not because he liked (like many sailors) to show his vessel's paces; but because he sat at his bottle too long after dinner.

  • Like many middle-class English boys I had been brought up to look on manual work as degrading.

  • But, like many a general, she lost the engagement by pressing her advantage too far.

  • The Duchesse de Luynes, like many others, had been a zealous partisan of the new order of things, and had expressed herself with great indiscretion in the presence of the Queen.

  • But this plan, like many others, was foiled in its birth, and, it is said, through the intrigues of Mirabeau.

  • Like many others, the first gleam of political regeneration led him into a system, which drove him out of France, to implore the shelter of a foreign asylum, that he might not fall a victim to his own credulity.

  • This is a question to which the verses of Scripture I am asking you to consider, like many others, supply an answer.

  • Zeal is a subject, like many others in religion, most sadly misunderstood.

  • But I am satisfied that prayer is just one of those things which is thought a "matter of course," and, like many matters of course, is shamefully neglected.

  • Rudolf, like many of his successors, was strictly speaking only king of the Romans, since he was never crowned emperor at Rome.

  • Like many of his contemporaries he was a deist, and held that God had revealed Himself in nature and in our hearts, not in Bible or church.

  • Like many of the princes of the time, he was forced to take sides on the religious question without, perhaps, himself having any deep religious sentiments.

  • Like many another, he wondered whether the god might be appeased by work--hard uncongenial work.

  • You are also unfitted in soul: you want and you need to like many people, and a man of that sort ought not to marry.

  • In this experiment, like many others, several individuals suffered pecuniary loss.

  • This failure, like many others, is ascribed to ignorance.

  • At least there were tears in his eyes and, like many of his age, he disliked to be seen thus.

  • The lad, like many others, felt a kindly interest in them and looked for their welfare.

  • From pamphleteering he took to declamation, and, like many another, became convinced by his own discourse.

  • Like many of the oldsters of the patrician order, she grew sorely repentant for youthful peccadilloes, took to psalm-singing, displayed strong ultra-Protestant proclivities.

  • Her heart is with us, like many another; but in this case at least it's best she should play blind.

  • Like many other of the great physicians of this time, he had studied astronomy as well as the medical sciences.

  • Doubtless, like many a young person of the modern time, he was quite sure that these symptoms portended some insidious organic ailment that would surely bring an early death.

  • It used to be said of him that, like many of the great men of history, many cities claimed to be his birthplace.

  • So, like many another in India at that time, she waited, hoping against hope, possessing her soul in patience.

  • The water, up to the girths, made a curious rushing sound, like many wings.

  • Like many halls of the colonial period, there is a groined arch.

  • This was some years after the encampment of continental troops in Cambridge, when this mansion, like many others, was used for officers' headquarters.

  • The Lee mansion, like many of the Marblehead houses, stands with one foot on the land and the other almost on the water, bespeaking the maritime side of the community.

  • But Alec Trenholme, like many people, could not see a fine point in the heat of discussion.

  • Like many others in Philadelphia this doorway is reached by four stone steps leading to a square stone platform, the entire construction being on the brick-paved sidewalk.

  • Like many houses of the time and place, the façade is of faced stone carefully pointed, while the other walls are of exceptionally pleasing ledge stone, the two kinds of masonry being quoined together at the corners.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like many" 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:
    like amount; like another; like appendages; like body; like bracts; like character; like everything; like eyes; like fruit; like her; like myself; like nature; like place; like scales; like sort; like structure; like the; like thee; like thine; like very; like water; like you very much; likened unto; oyster sauce; then fold; will beat