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Example sentences for "exactly like"

  • A larger insect, Sphecomorpha chalybea, is exactly like one of the large metallic blue wasps, and like them has the abdomen connected with the thorax by a pedicel, rendering the deception most complete and striking.

  • Once these hoof-marks led us to the brink of such a pretty creek, exactly like a Scotch burn, wide and noisy, tumbling down from rock to rock, but not very deep.

  • Inside, it is exactly like a most charming English house, and when I first stood in the drawing-room it was difficult to believe: that I was at the other end of the world.

  • His great strength enabled him to climb up again to his window; still, he was almost exhausted by the time he gained the sill, where he crouched on the lookout, exactly like a cat on the parapet of a gutter.

  • He was so firm on his feet, and so exactly like the La Baudraye of 1836, that Dinah despaired of ever burying the dreadful little dwarf.

  • Rarest of any was a pink flower growing on a prickly bush about a foot high, exactly like a miniature hawthorn-tree in full bloom.

  • One street is so exactly like another, that when you have seen a bit of the place you have seen the whole of it.

  • When in the moonlight bright The foxes wander of a night, They'll pass your grave and fondly think of you, Exactly like we mean to always do.

  • But he bore up nobly--exactly like an early Christian martyr.

  • Although in color this species seems to be exactly like B.

  • Exactly like topotypes of Hypsipetes fugensis Grant, but larger, and with the forehead rufescent instead of cinereous.

  • The colors of the iris, bill, and feet were noted as exactly like those of the male topotype.

  • An oven of stones, exactly like a Maori umu or hangi.

  • The chief in size is the egg of the cassowary, exactly like that of the emu except that the colour is pale moss green instead of the dark green of the emu.

  • Just look, I am sure I can do it exactly like him.

  • Mrs Harrington is so proud, and her eldest girl so exactly like her, that it will be a stale of miserable dependence.

  • You see, it isn't exactly like an ordinary ship.

  • Surplice wheeled, exactly like a kitten trying to catch its own tail, and provoked thunders of laughter.

  • I was lying down on my collapsible bed when he came up to my end of the room and began showing off exactly like a child.

  • Cabot, or exactly like Mrs. Campbell, or exactly like mother, though they all three stimulate and re an inspiration to me.

  • I thought you admired Martha above all thing and wanted me to be exactly like her.

  • I see that the Christian life must be individual, as the natural character is-and that I cannot be exactly like Dr.

  • And Adelaide Rich always added with great positiveness, "It's exactly like her to stay away on purpose, just to see what will happen.

  • Forgive me for laughing," she said, "but you did look so exactly like a giant crab sidling along on that ridiculous dust-pan.

  • It is just like my ball-gown--exactly like it!

  • This is exactly like visiting a powder-magazine.

  • The young man also seated himself in front of the mirror, and proceeded, with various brushes and colors, to paint his cheeks and nose a copper hue, exactly like that of the coachman's reflection in the glass.

  • Long as it is when extended, it can be thoroughly drawn within the body; and there it forms two fleshy cylinders, one within the other, exactly like a stocking half turned on itself.

  • Over the entire surface the areas of the net are occupied by series of ovate whitish hollows, from each of which protrudes a minute clear bladder or closed tube, exactly like those we lately saw in the little Starlet.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "exactly 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:
    beau sire; each fresh; exactly alike; exactly equal; exactly know; exactly like; exactly similar; exactly the; exactly the same manner; greater value; honest penny; noncommissioned officer; opposite the; perfect himself; political community; practically impossible; pudding dish; reindeer skin; scout master; separated from; thorough investigation; thought good; twelve pounds; wedding dress; whan they; will cease