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Example sentences for "not unlike"

  • When properly prepared, it is an agreeable and wholesome drink, not unlike cider or light beer.

  • The landscape then is not unlike what it must have been during the Carboniferous Period--immense stretches of dense, luxuriant woodlands in a vast fresh-water sea.

  • This name is not unlike Oofee, as they are called at most of the islands, except Mallicollo; nevertheless, we found these people spoke a language new to us.

  • But what most adds to their deformity, is a belt or cord which they wear round the waist, and tie so tight over the belly, that the shape of their bodies is not unlike that of an overgrown pismire.

  • About day-break a noise was heard in the woods, nearly abreast of us, on the east side of the harbour, not unlike singing of psalms.

  • The answer is not unlike to that which was once made by a philosopher in ancient times, who being interrogated if he had a woman whom they named him to his wife?

  • Your counsel, quoth Panurge, under your correction and favour, seemeth unto me not unlike to the song of Gammer Yea-by-nay.

  • I have never been able to discover whether the bird is so named because the cock is not unlike a ripe mango in colour, or because orioles are to be found in almost every mango tope.

  • The fourth species of bunting has been promoted to a different genus because it boasts of a conspicuous crest, not unlike that of the crested lark (Galerita cristata).

  • It projects from the general contour of the eyeball, not unlike a rounded bay-window, and is often spoken of as the "window of the eye.

  • The whole nerve, not unlike a minute tendon in appearance, is covered by a dense sheath of fibrous tissue, in which the blood-vessels and lymphatics are distributed to the nerve fibers.

  • It has a decided alkaline reaction and is not unlike saliva in many respects.

  • Not so yesterday, volumes of cloud on cloud inflamed with purple stretched over all the east, not unlike an English summer's dawn, but the colours more vivid.

  • To look at this speck of an oasis, its appearance is not unlike that of Seenawan.

  • In one of them, not unlike a city merchant's receiving-parlour, we found the Pasha and his court.

  • Nassau and its neighbourhood are really not unlike an open-air museum of botanical and marine curiosities.

  • On the left hand, as you pass into the first room, rises a sort of throne, not unlike the estrado in the grand audience-chamber of a Spanish viceroy.

  • She is a young, and rather pretty woman, not unlike a French actress in her manner.

  • At nearly the same level as themselves and directly over the city of Newark a huge globular object, not unlike an enormous green cantaloupe, appeared to float in the air.

  • When they returned, the workmen had already constructed a black box, not unlike an enormous camera in shape, in the center of the floor.

  • The wood is distinguished by the presence of vessels with close, spiral or ring-shaped thickenings, while in the phloem are found sieve tubes, not unlike those in the ferns.

  • In the axis of each of the four divisions the cells divide lengthwise so as to form a cylindrical mass of narrow cells, not unlike those in the stem of a moss.

  • The spore fruits arise from filaments not unlike those of the mildews, and are preceded by the formation of an archicarp composed of several cells, and readily seen through the walls of the young fruit (Fig.

  • The illumination was not grand: an ancient metal arrangement--not unlike a Pompeian lamp--with a wick soaked in oil profusely smoking.

  • The eastern part was more flattened, not unlike a huge soup plate.

  • It was that evening that I noticed for the first time in Brazil a peculiar and most wonderful effect of light at sunset--not unlike an aurora borealis.

  • The acaju produced a refreshing fruit, either of a bright red or else of a yellow colour, not unlike a large pepper, outside of which was strongly attached a seed possessing highly caustic qualities.

  • The small white blossom of the coffee tree is not unlike jessamine in shape and also in odour.

  • In shape it is not unlike a bath-chair without the hood.

  • The mutton was excellent, not unlike Southdown.

  • I was beginning to think that Siberian travel is not unlike African.

  • Under the microscope, in the summer we shall find that it consists of a number of thread-like structures, not unlike those of the common white mould and that there are a number of erect chains of spores.

  • It contains a vast number of starch grains, not unlike those of rice, except that they are rounded.

  • Each one, as we shall see when we make a more careful examination, is not unlike a miniature oyster-shell.

  • The puma is not unlike a lion's cub six months old.

  • In fact, in general colour and the arrangement of his hair, he is not unlike a badger or wolverine.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    important part; not afraid; not care; not even; not feel; not going; not his; not indeed; not know; not let; not made; not mistaken; not more; not sure; not the first time; not too; not understand; not worth; not you; note circulation; nothing better; nothing came; nothing whatever; noticed hereafter; observe them; under various