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Example sentences for "something like"

  • Thence we pushed on nearly a month's journey over great rolling uplands, something like those in the Transvaal, but diversified by patches of bush country.

  • He was dressed in a brown cloth garment, something like a flannel shirt without the sleeves, and in an unmistakable kilt of the same material.

  • Didn't know what it was I was looking for--never thought it would be something like you.

  • A new feeling for him, something like admiration, something like pride, stirred within her.

  • They're the Lost Tribes, or something like it, and they've grown to be English.

  • I'll do a Melancolia that shall be something like a Melancolia 'the Melancolia that transcends all wit.

  • The artist's misgivings ended in something like compunction, as he thought: "Her tears are caused by the contrast between the icy reception we gave her, and the cordial welcome we have just given Miss Burton.

  • I wonder if there is something like an unawakened mind, sleeping under that broad low brow that mocks one with its fair intellectual outline.

  • Once he thought she met his eyes with something like an appeal in her own, but he would not look long enough to be sure.

  • His name is Jules--Jules Darmanche or Darvanche or something like that.

  • It was something sinister and superb, this chant of the shipwrecked, the condemned, something like a prayer and also like something grander, something comparable to the ancient 'Ave Caesar morituri te salutant.

  • I know you are," said Tom; "but I thought maybe you might have a cold, or something like that.

  • I mean there may be something like them--soon.

  • Mary Nestor said she thought maybe you were going to Washington to take an examination for the engineering corps or something like that.

  • I imagine here that the meaning is something like this.

  • The transition between the first state and the last should be made gradually, for the too abrupt fall is something like annihilation.

  • You have five theatres; you will get thirty tickets--that will be something like seventy-five francs a month.

  • I want to make or buy a dress, something like yours, only a little plainer.

  • In the choir the clerks and sacristans tried their very hardest to sing well, and with the help of the men from the factory attempted something like a concert!

  • Almost invariably it is all over obliquely crossed and re-crossed with numberless straight marks in thick array, something like those in the finest Italian line engravings.

  • His attitude seemed to me something like that of Ishmael; but perhaps I judged hastily.

  • In it she looked, I must confess, something like an opera-dancer.

  • Finally, Cap Floyd got promoted to be a major-general, or a knight commander of the main herd, or something like that.

  • I imagine it's infidel or Aztec or Nonconformist or something like that.

  • He wondered if in the course of time he should get to be something like him.

  • That's something like," said Jeff, as if the contempt gave him a sort of pleasure; and his heavy face lighted up and then darkened again.

  • Her mother said, I believe, something like: "You have no right to go on living your life of prosperity and respect.

  • And then Leonora would say suddenly something like: "I should think myself defiled if Edward touched me now that he has touched you.

  • The salary of a provincial justice of the peace does not exceed fifteen hundred francs, while an examining magistrate's stipend is augmented by something like a thousand francs, because his position entails expenses and extra work.

  • So far from seeing anything ridiculous in the speech, they were both very much touched by a look of something like anguish in the old noble's face.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "something 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:
    absolute zero; forlorn hope; greater value; physical chemistry; powdered charcoal; professional life; pure blood; right gladly; slave trade; something akin; something analogous; something between; something beyond; something done; something extraordinary; something foreign; something good; something like; something more; something quite; something resembling; something that; something very; something which; something wrong; start them