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Example sentences for "not like"

  • Those who go there must go first where they do not like, and do what they do not like, and help somebody they do not like.

  • For my part, I confess I do not like to see a woman acting as road-keeper on a French railway.

  • I like to drink and I like to smoke, but I do not like to turn women out of the room.

  • It is a monopoly," the man told me, "and if we say anything, we are told that if we do not like it we need not use it.

  • Lucy is not like a Robarts at all; is she, now, Mrs. Pole?

  • And my property is not like his--I wish it were.

  • I tell you because I do not like to make my way into your house under a false pretence.

  • For it is not like that of our cold Acadian climate, Cured by wearing a spider hung round one's neck in a nutshell!

  • I know that yonder Pharisee Thanks God that he is not like me; In my humiliation dressed, I only stand and beat my breast, And pray for human charity.

  • In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle!

  • It was not shaped in a classic mould, Not like a Nymph or Goddess of old, Or Naiad rising from the water, But modelled from the Master's daughter!

  • She has been so every minute of every day for six-and-twenty years; but I am not like her, it is not my nature.

  • I will go and tell them to be punctual, for you do not like to be kept waiting.

  • A passion for women is not like gambling, or speculation, or avarice; there is an end to it.

  • I think it knew what was coming and did not like it at all.

  • Also he cooked well, and now I shall have to do that work which I do not like.

  • Because of my horrible failure in connection with this beast, the very memory of which humiliates me, I do not like to think of it more than I can help.

  • But it makes me able to tell you that I do not like you, and that I never have liked you from the first, and that no other living creature has anything to do with the effect you have produced upon me for yourself.

  • I mean that I do not like him, Charley, and that I will never marry him.

  • Is it generous and honourable to form a plan for gradually bringing their influence to bear upon a suit which I have shown you that I do not like, and which I tell you that I utterly reject?

  • Lammle tries to break the force of the fall, by remarking that some people do not like town.

  • I do not like the fashion of your garments.

  • We may never have had that told us before, and we may not like it, and we may not believe it; but there can be no better proof of the truth of what is now said than just this, that we do not like it and will not have it.

  • It not like himself,' said Mrs. Edmonstone, in a leading tone.

  • Philip, smiling, 'why should I not like him?

  • Do you mean that Sir Guy did not like it?

  • And provoking,' added Amy, 'only I believe you do not like me to say so.

  • Not like home, where you can go round a corner and get another gang.

  • It is not like home,' she thought; 'I am unhappy.

  • I do not like to boast of my own child, but to be sure, Jane--one does not often see anybody better looking.

  • They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.

  • You need not send them word at Longbourn of my going, if you do not like it, for it will make the surprise the greater, when I write to them and sign my name 'Lydia Wickham.

  • Of course you are my good friend, but he--it is not like you to speak of me.

  • It is not like her to keep me in suspense.

  • It is not very difficult to see that you do not like him.

  • I know much in you that I do not like, but I do not know everything.

  • Say what they will, ladies do not like you to smoke in their bedrooms: their silly little noses scent out the odor upon the chintz, weeks after you have left them.

  • Dancing I have forsworn, whist is too severe a study for me, and I do not like to play ecarte with old ladies, who are sure to cheat you in the course of an evening's play.

  • For this profession is not like that of the auctioneer, which I take to be a far more noble one, because more varied and more truthful; but in the Agency case, a little humbug at least is necessary.

  • I will act to him, not like a Father, not like a Guardian, not like a Friend--but like a Philosopher!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not 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:
    fair women; lying dead; not all; not appear; not dead; not even; not far; not fit; not forget; not less; not let; not long; not merely; not now; not speak; not that; not think; not yet; nota bene; note book; nothing against; nothing came; nothing less; nothing shall; nothing that; noticed that