SIMILAR in a Sentence
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308 example sentences for SIMILAR, such as:
1. This is similar to the example cited above.
2. A score of similar shops and establishments.
3. He said he's game for a similar challenge next year.
4. Insurance companies are already overburdened with similar claims.
5. It is a misconception to assume that the two continents are similar.
2. A score of similar shops and establishments.
3. He said he's game for a similar challenge next year.
4. Insurance companies are already overburdened with similar claims.
5. It is a misconception to assume that the two continents are similar.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SIMILAR
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similar
a. (of words) expressing closely related meanings
a. resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination
Classic Sentence: (186 in 13 pages)
1 All the people Ellen had known in Savannah might have been cast from the same mold, so similar were their view points and traditions, but here was a variety of people.
2 She had a confused memory of having heard similar words but she could not remember when and where.
3 And probably every house up and down the street had a similar guard of Yankees, so they could not apply to friends for aid.
4 But other memories importuned her also; the recollection of similar situations, as skillfully led up to, but through some malice of fortune, or her own unsteadiness of purpose, always failing of the intended result.
5 A score of similar shops and establishments.
6 I concluded that this harpooneer, in the course of his distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure.
7 Remembering the embalmed head, at first I almost thought that this black manikin was a real baby preserved in some similar manner.
8 When I was a child, I well remember a somewhat similar circumstance that befell me; whether it was a reality or a dream, I never could entirely settle.
9 He mounts the Folio whale's back, and as he swims, he works his passage by flogging him; as some schoolmasters get along in the world by a similar process.
10 Nor even down to so late a time as Cuvier's, were these or almost similar impressions effaced.
11 Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.
12 With reference to the whaling scene shortly to be described, as well as for the better understanding of all similar scenes elsewhere presented, I have here to speak of the magical, sometimes horrible whale-line.
13 Nevertheless, the Fin-Back's spout is so similar to the Sperm Whale's, that by unskilful fishermen it is often mistaken for it.
14 After many similar hair-breadth escapes, we at last swiftly glided into what had just been one of the outer circles, but now crossed by random whales, all violently making for one centre.
15 The whaling-pike is similar to a frigate's boarding-weapon of the same name.
Example Sentence: (122 in 9 pages)
1 This is similar to the example cited above.
2 Although they look similar, these plants are actually quite distinct.
3 Insurance companies are already overburdened with similar claims.
4 Some companies have already voluntarily disclosed similar information.
5 It is a misconception to assume that the two continents are similar.
6 The basic design of the car is very similar to that of earlier models.
7 The bottom line, he said, is that altruism may rely on a basic understanding that others hae motiations and actions that may be similar to our own.
8 The trial could set an important precedent for dealing with large numbers of similar cases.
9 Educators try to put pupils of similar abilities into classes because they believe that this homogeneous grouping is advisable.
10 Competitors have jumped on the bandwagon and started building similar machines.
11 The circular arrangement presents similar alternatives if one reads the lines of each hexagram from the center outward.
12 He said he's game for a similar challenge next year.
13 Even countries with broadly similar cultures can differ in what they define as criminal.
14 A minority administration should face little difficulty winning Liberal Democrat support for similar objectives.
15 The design of the new house is similar to those that have already been built.