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Example sentences for "rather like"

  • From the edge of the "umbrella" there hangs a fringe of long, delicate hairs, rather like spiders' threads.

  • Its broad, crinkled and bright green leaves are rather like those of a lettuce.

  • Each big eye is really a cluster of little eyes, rather like the "compound eyes" of insects.

  • In fact I think I rather like you--in spots.

  • Feeling as I do this morning I think I'd rather like to see him; but I hope to feel better soon.

  • My hide is tough, and I rather like to be put through the acid test once in a while.

  • She was always seeing that vision of Rosalie in the blue frock among them, rather like Alice, the real Alice, Tenniel's Alice.

  • She said thoughtfully, "You know, I believe I'm rather like a man in many ways, in points of view.

  • Rather like a trim gray sparrow she was, expecting a crumb, then changing her mind and hopping further on to find it.

  • However, I used the machine, which is ingenious and elastic, and only dangerous if the hook comes out of the wall, and I've found I rather like it.

  • I rather like bishops, but their legs are queer.

  • But in this light, it's rather like Gordon.

  • If she were not so slender she would be rather like a pretty dormouse half-recovering from its torpor.

  • It is an immense building, rather like Olympia.

  • He goes about looking for the other two of the Soldiers Three; it is rather like an unpopular politician trying to form a ministry.

  • He's rather like a squirrel himself--without the habit of hoarding.

  • I just thought--I'd rather like to go off with a man I know to-morrow.

  • Musgrave shook himself all over, rather like a Newfoundland dog coming out of the water, and the grave note died from his voice.

  • And Rudolph Musgrave, knowing that according to his lights he had behaved not unhandsomely, was the merest trifle patronizing and rather like a person speaking from a superior plane in his future dealings with Patricia.

  • Yes, I am quite aware that I am talking nonsense, and am on the verge of hysterics, thank you, but I rather like it.

  • I'd rather like to consult the Bishop before I undertook to advise you.

  • I'd rather like you to stick around, as I'm on to something really big and I don't want the Street to say we fleeced our clients.

  • But a wife can't give testimony against her husband and I think I'd rather like to be able to give testimony if needed.

  • And if this Atlantic flight does come off it'll be rather like Channel-swimming--done once and then not again for another forty years.

  • This sounded to me rather like some of my own Publicity conclusions; but "What does?

  • And it was at this point that Philip, recognizing that further objection would look rather like obstinacy, yielded.

  • I suppose she hadn't any barbed wire except that on her chin--it is rather like one of the gooseberries we used to make on the old wiring-course.

  • She sat down to wait, and at once became conscious of the boy coming over from the other side of the room, rather like a person walking in his sleep.

  • And, though to take charge of her would be rather like holding a burning match till there was no match left, he felt bound to volunteer.

  • Gentleman who does so much 'cause he says so little Hermits enamoured of wind and rain Heroine, in common with the hero, has her ambition to be of use I rather like to hear a woman swear.

  • You don't know whether to buckle yourself for life to some one you `rather like'--or not.

  • And, Nessie, shall I tell you something you'd rather like to hear?

  • I can shut him up, but we rather like it.

  • Dark green, marbled with pink streakings, it lay on the table between them, rather like a plump leech a foot and a half long.

  • It had a velvety, smooth, warm feeling, rather like a kitten.

  • Rather like a biologist planning the details of an interesting vivisection.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rather 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:
    best friend; deceive ourselves; giving lessons; hardly need; love you; rather broad; rather coarse; rather curious; rather fancy; rather firm; rather have; rather high; rather larger; rather like; rather long; rather open; rather soft; rather than; rather then; rather thick; rather think; rather think; rather wide; rest thee; testimony against; thousand things