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Example sentences for "look like"

  • But--mebbe we can manage to look like silk, if we spend enough.

  • Mebbe you can have thirty suits--if the wells hold out, but they won't look like his.

  • He did not, amazing to relate, look like a fool even when he gave forth his extraordinary question.

  • You think I'm lying, I look like I'm lying, I guess every word I say sounds like I'm lying.

  • If I was what I look like, that'd stir me up and make me feel bad," thought T.

  • When I told him that the picture of Miles Hugo in the gallery was said to look like Jem as a boy, he wanted very much to see it.

  • I look like a French Ambassador, and I hardly understand how you find courage to speak to me at all.

  • She felt that she was being made to look like a spoiled child.

  • Only you do look like a scarecrow broken loose.

  • You know," she said to Amelia, "you don't look like me.

  • She doesn't look like a happy child," agreed the rector.

  • But the pen in his trembling hand made queer spidery marks in the ledgers now, and his figure seven was very likely to look like a drunken letter "z.

  • I've always said that, when it came to repose and self-control, you could make the German Empress look like a hoyden.

  • I don't know just how; but I'm sure that twenty-four hours later our shop would look like a Buckingham drawing-room when the court is in mourning.

  • But the food at the Grande here makes a quarter-inch round steak with German fried look like Sherry's latest triumph.

  • I am trying not to look like Uncle," answered Mac coolly.

  • It doesn't look like a painful disease, but I must be careful, for I've no time to be ill now.

  • Because I prefer to look like myself, and not resemble any other man, no matter how good or great he may be.

  • I know it doesn't look like one, but it is.

  • But they didn't have anything cheaper that wouldn't have made me look like one of those awful play-actin' girls that came to Bayport with the Uncle Tom's Cabin show.

  • But Francoise, her counsellor, induced her to decide on the white suit, pointing out that the Rosier would look like a swan.

  • We were soon out of the town, and the carriage turned into a garden that was an imitation of a park, and stopped in front of a turreted house, which tried to look like a chateau.

  • The pale streaks of foam, clinging to the black rocks, whose countless peaks rise up out of the water, look like bits of rag floating and drifting on the surface of the sea.

  • They could see one another but indistinctly in the darkness, and the mountain of heavy winter wraps in which each was swathed made them look like a gathering of obese priests in their long cassocks.

  • If he thinks I look like THAT, I'll never speak to him again!

  • If I may say anything so impossible, it seems to me that I look like a comic valentine of you," said Mr. Bell, as they began to dance.

  • Patty tried very hard to look like a stone image but only succeeded in looking like a very pretty pink-cheeked girl.

  • Well, he doesn't look like a dying goat, if that's what you mean!

  • I don't care to be mentioned in connection with Miss Morton," and Patty tried her best to look like a tragedy queen.

  • The foliage of trees does not always require clipping to make it look like an image of life.

  • But as he takes off layer after layer, the truth seems to grow smaller and smaller, and some of its outlines begin to look like something we have seen before.

  • The blade was broad, trowel-like, but the point drawn out several inches, so as to look like a skewer.

  • That other one whom he thinks he loves better than he does me is tall and beautiful and majestic--like you; and I have always told myself that his future wife ought to look like you.

  • And does he look like a man who would allow himself to be parted from a girl by his mother, whether he would or no?

  • Given a tall rich man who hates girls, but is very generous to one quite impertinent girl, what does he look like?

  • You can see by the accompanying picture how much we look like a real ballet.

  • Saturday Do you want to know what I look like?

  • But when Jane entered, she started and sat up, and tried to look like herself.

  • Look like he pestered ev'ybody but ol' Brer Rabbit, an' de reason dat he liked it wuz kaze it worried de yuther creeturs.

  • It has already broadened surprisingly, the sea appears to have risen up, not as a horizontal plane, but like an immeasurable azure precipice: what will it look like when we shall have reached the top?

  • The skirt bells out like the skirt of a dancer, leaving the feet and bare legs well exposed; and the head is covered with a white handkerchief, twisted so as to look like a turban.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "look 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:
    block away; little puss; look after; look around; look down; look for; look upon; look well; looked anxiously; looked forward; looked full; looked more; looked out; looked over; looking after; looking around; looking away; looking down; looking east; looking fellow; looking person; looking place; looking towards; looking unto; looking west; partly from