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Example sentences for "something similar"

  • You may cut them out small with the lid of a cannister (or something similar) the usual size of gingerbread nuts.

  • Cut it into round cakes with the edge of a tumbler, or something similar; dipping the cutter frequently into flour to prevent its sticking.

  • It is to be had of most druggists; and will also destroy cockroaches, by spreading it on bits of cake or something similar, and laying it at night on the kitchen hearth, and in the closets.

  • Something similar happened to me when I was a student.

  • We all know that we must make distinctions between city and country children, and must not be surprised at the country child who has not seen a gas-lamp, a railroad, or something similar.

  • A name or region then seems to be familiar because we have read of something similar.

  • At the same time we must suppose that the question here is one of the nature of the body, and this can be measured only by something similar, i.

  • Something similar related of the Carnatic, “the land of ancient emporiums.

  • Something similar is true of most of the laws of our science; as, for instance, those in accordance with which the price of commodities is fixed by the buyer and seller.

  • Something similar may be seen in the contrast between Austria and Prussia.

  • Something similar is found in 'Lizie Wan,' No 51.

  • They changed every foreign term to something similar in their own language; to something similar in sound, however remote in meaning; being led solely by the ear.

  • For the writers of this nation, not knowing the purport of the words, which they found in their antient hymns, changed them to something similar in sound; and thus retained them with a degree of religious, but blind reverence.

  • It is something similar to the finest walnut, the color being a rich hazel brown, mottled and striped with irregular black marks.

  • The fruit is something similar in appearance to a small, unripe jack-fruit, with an equally rough exterior.

  • This is something similar to the jack, but, like the tamarind, the value of the produce saves the tree from destruction.

  • Something similar may be found in Lamaism, but it forms no part of Gotama's original institution nor of the Buddhist Church as seen to-day in Burma, Siam and Ceylon.

  • Something similar to these collections of verses which are not fully intelligible without a commentary explaining the occasions on which they were uttered may be seen in Chândogya Up.

  • Something similar is found in India in the legends of those ascetics who triumphed over the flesh until they become very gods in power[56].

  • This name means "the powerful king," or something similar, and the god bearing it is supposed to be the same as Nerigal.

  • Something similar to this is being accomplished to-day by science in regard to the sexual relations.

  • Something similar is going to take place in the schools.

  • Something similar ought to be attempted in the reformatories.

  • Shem) is established," or something similar, but rame here is probably not connected with the second syllable of Abram's name.

  • Something similar is true of other great catastrophes and of extravagance on a large scale.

  • Something similar is true of Louis Blanc's proposition that the rate of wages of the workmen should be determined and regulated by their own votes and among themselves.

  • Others render it advantage, or something similar; which seems less applicable to the passage.

  • Most translators have taken the words in the sense of "You would take pity on them, I suppose," or something similar.

  • Rose renders this "are always changing, and constantly for the worse;" and most other translators have given something similar.

  • Had ruled," or something similar, must be supplied.

  • Something similar happened a century before, when Offa, king of Mercia, about the year 790, was completing Offa’s dyke.

  • With a wood worker's gauge or something similar make a mark around them both near the lower sides.

  • Skins of large animals, a bear for instance, may have a slight wrapping of tow or excelsior on the leg bones to prevent their coming in contact with the skin and the whole skin laid to dry on a scaffold of poles or something similar.

  • After cleaning either the inside or out of a skin with plaster it will be necessary to gently beat it with a whisk broom or something similar to dislodge the particles of plaster.

  • Japanese gold paint or something similar will do for a golden ground.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "something similar" 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:
    capital employed; gold letters; had bought; like myself; moment and then said; much flour; physical force; seemed very; something about; something between; something beyond; something different; something else; something external; something for; something foreign; something good; something quite; something real; something seemed; something similar; something which; tell anybody; time passed; will first; yellow flowers