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Example sentences for "much like"

  • A panther in a deer yard is much like a wolf shut up in a sheepfold.

  • Quonab put the back of his hand to his mouth and made a loud squeaking, much like a rabbit caught in a snare.

  • It gave him somewhat of a scare, much like that a young swimmer gets when he finds he has drifted away from his floats; and, like that same beginner, it braced him to help himself.

  • I really thought you didn't much like Mr. Rolfe,' she said, without any show of embarrassment.

  • What was more, he had heard of her charming water-colours, and he would so much like to see them.

  • This exhortation is much like these: "Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

  • Jer 3:14) That saying of Paul is much like this, "Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?

  • Much like this is that in the Acts of the Apostles, 'For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

  • In fact, it looks so much like a stunted heart nut that I suspected that one of these nuts might have gotten into the lot by accident.

  • The quality of the nut is very good, much like that of the Siebold, but the nut is larger and compressed.

  • The nut of the Digger pine is very highly prized by the Indians and is larger and better in quality than the nut of the Big-cone pine which looks so much like it.

  • It looked so much like a scene from an opera that I half expected to see the curtain go down and the lights flare up, and I feared the applause which always spoils the dream.

  • I am not afraid of horses, but donkeys are so much like mules.

  • The mode of insertion of the antennæ of this family is much like that of the Myriopods, the front of the head being flattened, and concealing the base of the antennæ, as in the Centipedes and Pauropus.

  • The Notonecta, or water boatman, is much like a Tettigonia, but its wings are transparent on the outer half, and its legs are fringed with long hairs, being formed for swimming.

  • All this was not so much like a succession of events as it was like a tableau.

  • As at first written it had one verse in it which sounded so much like a nursery rhyme that Emerson was prevailed upon to omit it in the later versions.

  • The machinery is much like that of the two preceding series.

  • It is not strange; he had not seemed to me much like a human being, until all at once I touched the one point where his vitality had concentrated itself, and he stood revealed a man and a brother.

  • Mr. Poyser, entering warm and coatless, with the two black-eyed boys behind him, still looking as much like him as two small elephants are like a large one.

  • And he behaved as much like a gentleman to the farmers, and th' old women, and the labourers, as he did to the gentry.

  • Adam had never behaved so much like a determined lover before.

  • Miss Jerusha, as much like a policeman as anything; "and where do you live?

  • Well, he looked as much like winning as any of them," said the lady, laughing.

  • I do not approve of hole-and-corner marriages, but where the gentleman has to take up an official position some allowance must be made.

  • One morning I met Patterson on my round, and found him looking rather pale and fagged out.

  • But maybe you won't feel so much like laughin' in the morning.

  • It is the child of one of my girls, but it looks so much like me, that my wife don't want it on the place.

  • You look so much like a picture I have seen of yours in your father's album.

  • Minnie always seems so much like a child that I never get her associated in my mind with courtship and marriage.

  • Then we'll feel more like scouts and not so much like convicts.

  • It seemed so much like a military encampment, so close and stuffy and temporary, and unlike the free and remote abode that they were used to.

  • If you'd turned out to be a different kind of a fellow I wouldn't have felt so much like a sneak.

  • And it will not look so much like an expedition if we make up a cruising party.

  • Honest, in all I'd seen of him at the Corrugated, I'd never known Warrie Mason to act so much like a live one.

  • If there is much like that, no collection in the world can match it.

  • I wish," softly said Barbara, "you wouldn't smile so much like him.

  • However, he proposed to say in a few words, which should be as much like deeds as he could make 'em, what he was willing to do.

  • I wonder if anyone else was ever so much like sunshine in a prison window!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "much 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:
    much affected; much alone; much amused; much beauty; much better; much celebrated; much compressed; much depends; much desired; much disturbed; much energy; much entitled; much esteemed; much fatigued; much food; much force; much interested; much land; much milk; much reason; much respect; much respected; much troubled; much used; much water; much worse