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Example sentences for "something akin"

  • And does not the fact that this change was brought about, thanks principally to Spanish obstinacy, point to something akin to hegemony?

  • And how many philosophical ideas are not strictly owing to something akin to rhyme, to the necessity of rightly placing a consonant!

  • A sense, at once pleasurable and defiant, of something akin to ownership, came over him as he did so.

  • She respected and trusted this man, entertained for him, notwithstanding his harsh speech and uncouth exterior, something akin to affection.

  • Traces of self-consciousness, of vanity, are often discernible in it; yet at least it attests the existence of a certain appreciation of what is beautiful, and of something akin to the creative impulse of the artist.

  • There is something akin in their natures.

  • He had shown promise of something akin to genius in his Oxford days, and there had not been lacking those among his companions and tutors who had declared that he could win fame and fortune through academic laurels.

  • I think beyond doubt that he gives us the impression of something dynamic, something akin to the vital forces of the organic world, much more distinctly and fully than any other poet who has lived.

  • I believe he supplies in fuller measure that pristine element, something akin to the unbreathed air of mountain and shore, which makes the arterial blood of poetry and literature, than any other modern writer.

  • I had detected, through the veil of melancholy that seemed to have fallen over him, a faint ray of something akin to humor.

  • Sir Harry admires his young friend much, there is something akin in their two natures; but the acquired shrewdness of the elder man is no match for the strong intellect and determined will of his junior.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    actual service; apple trees; cannon ball; cross sections; good cream; late spring; motor boat; relieve the; something about; something akin; something analogous; something between; something doing; something external; something for; something foreign; something held; something like; something more; something quite; something resembling; something similar; something very; that you; the garden; witch hazel