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Example sentences for "looked like"

  • He was covered with snow, and he wore a sweater and no overcoat, but he looked like a gentleman.

  • He had been ugly all evening, and now he looked like a devil.

  • And there was one person that looked like a gentleman--Heber C.

  • After the shooting the street was instantly crowded with the inhabitants of that part of the town, some appearing much excited and laughing--declaring that it looked like the "good old times of '60.

  • It assisted us, by comparison, to comprehend and appreciate the great depth of the basin --it looked like a tiny martin-box clinging at the eaves of a cathedral.

  • I once heard a gouty northern invalid say that a cocoanut tree might be poetical, possibly it was; but it looked like a feather-duster struck by lightning.

  • He looked like a respectable farmer of the middle of the nineteenth century.

  • Weeks put his head on one side so that he looked like a sparrow on a perch.

  • He thought of the boy he had been devoted to; it was funny, he could not recall his name; he remembered exactly what he looked like, he had been his greatest friend; but his name would not come back to him.

  • He looked like a military man; his moustache was waxed, his gray hair was short and neat, he held himself upright, he talked in a breezy way, he lived at Enfield.

  • It looked like a pea uneasily poised on an egg.

  • He looked like a good man, and I felt bound by the promise I had given him.

  • It looked like a very simple matter, but I might get into trouble, for the note might be forged; and even if it were not I should be declaring myself a friend or a correspondent, at all events, of a man who had been posted.

  • We looked like a medical student about to perform an operation, and she like a patient, with this difference that it was the patient who arranged the dressing.

  • In spite of my own anger I felt that I must take the poor devil's part; he looked like a dog with a tin kettle tied to his tail.

  • He said I was rich, and I looked like it.

  • Externally speaking, the rising solicitor, who was going to try his luck at the Bar, looked like a man who was going to succeed.

  • He looked like a young god of mythology--like a statue animated with color and life.

  • He looked like a man who had made up his mind to confront any thing that could happen, and to contradict any body who spoke to him.

  • It proved that Maurice had knocked down three of the feathered prizes, and as they were fat teal, it looked like a genuine treat in store for the river travelers on the shanty-boat.

  • I didn't see any head, so I can't say; but it looked like a man creeping off.

  • Looked like he was kind of afraid that he might be seen, and was hitchin' along to get behind more leaves.

  • It looked like kernels of gold, when it was opened.

  • It was called a harrow, and it looked like this:-- The man harnessed the horses to it, and then he stood on the platform and drove all over the strip of land.

  • Stooping down, he began to pick up the papers, which, for the most part, looked like bills.

  • It looked like a bottle, but they kept no liquor in the shack.

  • I ought to have known----He looked like you.

  • But the most curious thing about him, realized after a short scrutiny, was that, though he looked like a fisherman, he was not fishing.

  • The duke, who had been walking slowly, stood quite still, and for some seconds he looked like a tailor's dummy standing and staring outside some antiquated shop.

  • March remarked that it looked like a tavern for vinegar instead of wine.

  • He looked like a lost soul, an' the whites of his eyes showed in ghastly rings around the pupils.

  • The mane bristled up on that dog's back an' his muscles bulged out till he looked like a stone image.

  • He looked like a man going to the electric chair.

  • Her mother insisted, and it looked like an altercation, when the head of the family called them to order "And where are you going for your honeymoon, Fanny?

  • He looked like a regular monarch in them.

  • He looked like a humorous philosopher who had hitched up one shoulder under the burdens of life, and gone on his way having a good time when he could.

  • His face was ruggedly formed, but it looked like ashes--like something from which all the warmth and light had died out.

  • At a distance, on his wagon, he looked like an old man; his hair and beard were of such a pale flaxen colour that they seemed white in the sun.

  • He shrivelled up, Antonia said, until he looked like a little old yellow monkey, for his beard and his fringe of hair never changed colour.

  • Mr. Radcliff, do you remember pointing out a black muley yesterday and saying that he looked like a native animal?

  • On my return to Dodge, the only thing about me that indicated a cow-hand was my Texas saddle and outfit, but in toggery, in my visiting harness, I looked like a rank tenderfoot.

  • Under the influence of the season, alkali had oozed up out of the soil until it looked like an immense lake under snow.

  • His tender had thrown coal all over him, and he looked like a disreputable buffalo who had tried to wallow in a general store.

  • Then up and spoke a small, newish switching-engine, with a little step in front of his bumper-timber, and his wheels so close together that he looked like a broncho getting ready to buck.

  • He was supposed to have Australian blood in his veins, but he looked like a clothes-horse, and you could whack his legs with an iron crow-bar without hurting him.

  • In his chestnut-brown frock-coat he looked like a red herring wrapped up in the cover of a pamphlet, and he held himself as erect as an Easter candle.

  • It was only about the size of a fox's skin, but it seemed to fill the deep shadows of the place with such brilliant rays that it looked like a small comet, an appearance at first sight inexplicable.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "looked 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:
    below the; cannot stand; district attorney; empirical laws; good name; great demand; heart like; keep away; know whom; looked about; looked after; looked again; looked away; looked down; looked for; looked from; looked full; looked like; looked over; looked quite; looked round; looked very; none will; public subscription; still they; you perceive