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Example sentences for "like they"

  • They wanted freedom but it wasn't like they thought it would be.

  • I think we ought to have some powerful men and women but what I see they don't stand up like they should.

  • They do like they want to do and don't tell nobody till they done it.

  • They just walked around and round like they did in those days.

  • I reckon the Lord made 'em like they are to keep men humble and contrite an' to show up to advantage His best work on t'other shore.

  • I never could see how women kin set an' rub an' rub the'r gums with it like they do.

  • Georgia had jest went fur prohibition a few months before that, and they hadn't opened up these here near-beer bar-rooms in the little towns yet, like they had in Atlanta and the big towns.

  • She seen she had a piece of news, and she's bound to be the first to spread it, like they is always a lot of women wants to be in them country towns.

  • The hull kit and biling of 'em got the power good and hard, like they does at camp meetings and revivals.

  • Leave Hettie and Amos be married in your parlor, like they want to be and like all Friendship Village wants to see ’em.

  • You got to do ’em like they’ve been done.

  • I see it like they do--I feel it like they do.

  • We worked the farm and tended to the horses and cattle and hogs, and some of the older women worked around the owner's house, but each Negro family looked after a part of the fields and worked the crops like they belonged to us.

  • The deck was covered with things like they'd found on the beach.

  • They seem like they was mostly young boys like, and they jest laughing and jollying and going on like they was on a picnic.

  • We had a pavilion built in the yard, like they had at picnics, and we fed the Fed'rals in that.

  • The floor was dirt and the house was make jus' like they used to make 'tater house.

  • I, as loud as I could holler; but they only stood and looked at me like they didn’t know what I meant.

  • He said that was no differ'nt than advertisin' the printin'-offices that way, like they do.

  • Well, the dream dwindled off, like they will.

  • That's why you see these shoes lookin' like they're spang new.

  • You dunner how nice it is for to have white folks talkin' like they ain't gwine to kill you yet awhile.

  • Dad wanted a druggist to put up onions in capsules, like they do quinine, so he could take onions and not taste them, but he couldn't make the man understand.

  • He goes after 'em readily, like they's antelope.

  • No one who hasn't been married can possibly understand men, or fear them or despise them, like they ought to be feared and despised.

  • And have everybody in the crowd laughing at me like they are at you?

  • Is it just old woman stuff, like they say?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "like they" 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:
    distinguished guests; dollar figure; like anybody; like body; like case; like character; like everything; like fate; like fire; like form; like kind; like ourselves; like process; like projections; like quantity; like shape; like structures; like the; like thee; like their; like they; like true; liked best; likely enough; ninth year; save for