It seemed that, at the moment that the enormous narwhal had come to take breath at the surface of the water, the air was engulfed in its lungs, like the steam in the vast cylinders of a machine of two thousand horse-power.
I believe in the existence of a mammal power fully organised, belonging to the branch of vertebrata, like the whales, the cachalots, or the dolphins, and furnished with a horn of defence of great penetrating power.
When the boy was walking and running about and digging and weeding like the others, the nest in the corner was brooded over by a great peace and content.
Do you think I am going to allow my body to be made a pincushion of, by every little frog-eater who don't like the shape of your nose?
Still, in his heart, he recollected that her ladyship was after all only one of them "furriners"; what wonder that she was immoral like the rest of them?
Like the certainty of death, he tried to shut the certainty of soon being without a dollar completely out of his mind, and he came very near doing it.
He was merely floating those gossamer threads of thought which, like the spider's, he hoped would lay hold somewhere.
I don't like the actors in our company," she told Lola one day.
Carrie was unwise, and, therefore, like the sheep in its unwisdom, strong in feeling.
Like the helmet of Navarre, Charlotta's blue bows waved ever in the thickest of the fray.
DAVY, if ever I catch you at such a trick again you'll be made to wait for your meals till everyone else is done, like the French.
Anne sighed; and then cheered herself up by remembering that winning a Pye's affections, like the building of Rome, wasn't the work of a day.
The boat was all pearly and rainbowy, like the inside of the mussel shells, and her sail was like moonshine.
Anne, however, was beginning to like the queer, fussy, fidgety little man, and before the meal was over they were quite good friends.
I heard an educated gentleman say, 'Like the flag-officer did.
Doubtless they chose farming because that life is private and secluded from irruptions of undesirable strangers--like the pilot-house hermitage.
His cook or his butler would have said, 'Like the flag-officer done.
The plants lift up their heads out of the earth, like the eyes of children glistening with delight.
Brass bands bray Hail Columbia, huzza after huzza thunders from the shores, and the stately creatures go whistling by like the wind.
Her theological tenets were all made up, labelled in most positive and distinct forms, and put by, like the bundles in her patch trunk; there were just so many of them, and there were never to be any more.
Nephi 7:8 8 And thus six years had not passed away since the more part of the people had turned from their righteousness, like the dog to his vomit, orlike the sow to her wallowing in the mire.
Nephi 21:7 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
And she seized the boy in a crushing embrace that made him feel like the guiltiest of villains.
Like the wildfires on the marsh, Was I to a friend unfeeling?
Suddenly they heard a remote sound, like the hum of a giant insect, and following the high-road, which wound whiter through the surrounding twilight, a black object rushed across their vision.
Mrs. Peniston had kept her imagination shrouded, like the drawing-room furniture.
We owed this idea, like the first, to the immortal Selina Whiston.
The not unmelodious chant in which she delivered her admonitions rang out, at times, like the peal of a trumpet.
Now we are blinded with light and saturated with heat, like the Indians of the Pampas!
Well, algebra is a tool, like the plow or the hammer, and a good tool to those who know how to use it.
On one side the sun, like the mouth of a lighted oven, a dazzling disc without a halo, standing out on the dark background of the sky!
The door was hurriedly burst open again, and in came running Cainy Ball out of breath, his mouth red and open, like the bell of a penny trumpet, from which he coughed with noisy vigour and great distension of face.
Perhaps you don't like the rudeness of my reprimanding you, for I know it is rudeness; but I thought it would do good.
One set of tracks was fresh and had no water in them; one pair of ruts was also empty, and not small canals, like the others.
A faint blush, like the shadow of a rose in a mirror of silver, came to her cheeks as she glanced at the crowded enthusiastic house.
Like the gods of the Greeks, he would be strong, and fleet, and joyous.
Like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart.
Bahram of the Wild Ass--a Sassanian Sovereign--had also his Seven Castles (like the King of Bohemia!
The Ruins of Three of those Towers are yet shown by the Peasantry; as also the Swamp in which Bahram sunk, like the Master of Ravenswood, while pursuing his Gur.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
