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Example sentences for "little like"

  • There are crops here, a little like potatoes, which suggest partridges.

  • On the telegraph wire are butcher birds, hoopoos, kingfishers, and a vivid blue bird a little like a jay, the roller bird I believe.

  • Out of Londa the trees get finer and taller, and you see real live bamboos in great masses of soft grey-green, their foliage a little like willows at a distance.

  • She is a little like Ralph," said Mrs. Deering, "only infinitely handsomer.

  • There was an accession of many passengers here, and they and the people on the wharf were as little like Americans as possible.

  • It was for only fifty dollars, and the canny Scotch blood in Beaton rebelled; he could not let this picture go for any such money; he felt a little like a man whose generosity has been trifled with.

  • In their youth they had borne very little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible.

  • He had stiffened himself in that coffin, and had become a little like a corpse.

  • It was a little like being a prisoner, but a prisoner in a palace, a prisoner who is well paid.

  • As I entered, Mr. Brokenshire was standing in his customary position of command, a little like a pasha in his seraglio, his back to the empty fireplace.

  • She is in high favour with her aunt altogether, because she is so little like myself, of course.

  • And she, "Only to be sure it was paying him too great a compliment, but she did think there were some looks a little like Mr. Elton.

  • I sometimes think, Mary, that Honora is a little like Randolph, and-Mrs. Randolph.

  • Well, I happen to have in mind a young man who errs somewhat on the other side, and who looks a little like a cliff profile I once saw on Lake George of George Washington or an Indian chief, who stands about six feet two.

  • I would fain enjoy my youth, though I'm little like to do it whilst here I am.

  • So long, therefore, as they do after His commands, and follow Him, they be little like to err.

  • Little like are ye grown To that Gunnar of old days!

  • He answered: "I too have misdoubted me, that she is little like a bondwoman, and when we first met, in seemly wise she greeted noble men.

  • Here have I the heart Of Hogni the hardy, Little like to the heart Of Hjalli the trembler.

  • In the car, he held her hand silently, feeling a little like a bashful schoolboy and a little like Sir Kenneth Malone.

  • Disguised It sounded, so far, just a little like Frankenstein's Monster wearing a red wig.

  • Though neatly turned out, he looked a little like an out-of-work bookkeeper.

  • Forrester considered them carefully: average-looking people, a sprinkling of youngsters, and in the far corner a girl who looked just a little like .

  • Perhaps it was true that he did look a little like Bacchus, but not enough for Ed Symes to kid about it.

  • I can speak of it now a little like a foreigner.

  • It is a little like shooting on the wing, I confess.

  • They looked a little like a circus, except that there want any wild animals.

  • His hair was not slick, and his beard looked a little like a paint brush, his pants ran up on his boots, and bagged at the knees.

  • It's a little like pullin' hair, but I reckon we'd better give him up.

  • It is a little like Woking, a little like Worplesdon; and, generally speaking, it is the type of course that one would expect to find in Surrey rather than in Yorkshire.

  • There is a particularly clear-cut distinction between the two parts of the course, which is in that respect a little like Sandwich.

  • There is something about you a little like one of them!

  • You--there is something about you a little like one of them.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little like" 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:
    became poor; department store; little awkward; little before; little bottle; little curved; little devil; little doll; little dove; little enough; little excitement; little flower; little fortune; little girl; little hard; little lamb; little lass; little panel; little paste; little pepper; little smile; little star; little town; little value; little wild; little worth