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Example sentences for "like most"

  • The altar is coloured, like most of the Spanish retablos.

  • Prior and Gardner have recently expressed their opinion that these statues, like most of the thirteenth century work in England, are of native origin.

  • Like most of the Renaissance arts, it was a reversion instead of a new creation.

  • So we didn't spend our money foolish, like most part of the diggers that had a bit of luck; but we had to do a fair thing.

  • This village, like most of these places, had a public-house and a blacksmith's shop.

  • I gave him Homer, and asked him to read a page; and I found that, like most boys of any talent who had been at the Charterhouse, he was very well grounded in that language.

  • I supported the poor wretch in my arms; for, like most of his countrymen, he is a chickenhearted fellow, and was almost fainting away.

  • I said nothing about Lord Byron's criticism on Walpole, because I thought it, like most of his Lordship's criticism, below refutation.

  • Like most Englishmen, he had, no doubt, a vein of poetic feeling hidden away somewhere in his soul.

  • Like most of these old establishments, it was a long low building with a thatched roof, enclosures for cattle and sheep close by, and an old grove or plantation of shade-trees bordered with rows of tall Lombardy poplars.

  • Like most of the hunters he became specially proud of his rifle, calling it "Nancy"; for they were very apt to know each his favorite weapon by some homely or endearing nickname.

  • Like most men, he was so well satisfied with himself, that he saw no occasion to take trouble to be anything better than he was.

  • Like most of his kind, he had been neither so vulgar nor so dishonest from the first.

  • I learned this, like most of the sense I've got--hard; and it was only a few years ago that I took my last lesson in it.

  • Then, like most reformers, she overdid it--went and had twins.

  • Like most of these little fellows, when he came to match up for double harness, he picked out a six-footer, Kate Miggs.

  • Standing by itself, this table, like most of the others, seems to support Mr Sadler's theory.

  • It is not improbable that, but for the one circumstance, Barere would, like most of those with whom he ordinarily acted, have voted for the appeal to the people and for the respite.

  • Like most Germans, he thought that music held a subordinate place in France: and he expected that it would be served up in small delicate portions.

  • Like most of the children of their class, the little Jeannins were kept apart from the common children: the children of servants and farmers, who inspired them with fear and disgust.

  • Like most of our debonair dollar chasers, he was a good sportsman only when the game was with him.

  • They're like most people--they keep to the beaten track and fight tooth and nail against being drawn out of it and against those who do go out of it.

  • Instead of that," said she, "I find Miss Dodd is like most girls; out of sight is out of mind with her.

  • Like most artisans, he was clever in a groove: take him out of that, and lo!

  • The noblest minds were engaged in the struggle, and, like most reformers, they pushed their conclusions to extremes, and too often lost sight of the need of a due proportion in things.

  • As for Mr. Robertson's preface, like most of the prefaces in the Canterbury Series, it is very carelessly written.

  • Like most of our younger poets, Mr. Irwin is at his best in his sonnets, and those entitled The Seeker after God and The Pillar of the Empire are really remarkable.

  • Like most dramatists, also, he is more interested in the psychological exceptions than in the general rule.

  • It is simply a society paragraph expanded into three volumes and, like most paragraphs of the kind, is in the worst possible taste.

  • Like most ladies at that time she wore a little black velvet domino mask over her eyes.

  • Still, like most servants, he vented most of his malice indirectly, as in this hint of his about the river.

  • He was an abject looking lad, like most ship's boys.

  • The Golden Bough, like most clippers of her day, sometimes carried emigrant passengers, and had need of a spacious lazaret.

  • This roundhouse (which was really square, of course, like most roundhouses on board ship) was very plentifully supplied with ports.

  • A natural bully, and, like most such, at heart craven.

  • But, like most of the lessons set before us in this life, I feared it would be a lesson unlearnt.

  • I probe, and wonder, and cannot let it alone, like most people, and be content with surfaces.

  • Or does it, like most of us its members, swing to and from between them, touching now one, now the other?

  • They were not idealists, and not Bolshevists, but frank grabbers, like most of us.

  • Like most vigorous-minded men, seeing that there was no stopping-place between dogma and negation, he preferred to accept dogma.

  • He hoped that she would become, like most converts, more zealous than himself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    acted like; also from; both parents; first rate; like animal; like being; like body; like children; like fire; like him; like himself; like his; like many; like myself; like number; like one; like projections; like sort; like substance; like that; like the; like true; like vnto; like water; likely enough; under date