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Example sentences for "likes"

Lexicographically close words:
likenesses; likening; likens; liker; likerous; likest; liket; liketh; likeways; likewise
  1. When she heard of the Revolutionary meetings in Lebigre's wine-shop and of the leading part taken by Florent, she became greatly alarmed, more especially as Quenu had begun to accompany his brother occasionally.

  2. Impressed by the vast industry of his friend, M.

  3. Where would you find the likes iv him, as far as that same goes, William Wilson?

  4. Winny couldn't be such a born idgiot as to make much of the likes of him where Tom was to the fore.

  5. Honest to goodness, Susan, do ye think the likes o' ye could belong to the likes o' that?

  6. One hardly likes to pass on shabby garments, much less shabby facts, to cover another's past.

  7. He's got hold of the black fellows, sir, and can do just what he likes with 'em.

  8. Some likes one smell, and some likes another, and then they calls it scent.

  9. There is something in them which will hurt him, and therefore likes to hurt him: and if he cannot destroy them, and so deliver himself, his fear of them grows quite boundless.

  10. She rather likes him, but naturally the idea of marrying a giant doesn't appeal to her.

  11. She likes to spend her time going up and down in the lift,' Henry explained.

  12. These men, whose names are known to the modern world chiefly in notes to classical authors, or occasionally in some impertinent sneer, he likes to contemplate as if they were alive.

  13. I don't blame ye for feelin' sore, but the likes of us can't fight Mackintavers in the courts.

  14. He was facing what he hated most in the world--ridicule; he was forced to realise one of the things that a man least likes to realise--that he has failed to manage a woman whom he has undertaken to manage.

  15. Sir Roger likes you, so does Lady Granville; they said so last night after you went to bed.

  16. Father tells me I am wrong to take violent likes and dislikes to people at a first meeting; but I can't help it, I am made that way.

  17. We know from the infantile history of so many people that a tenderly solicitous parent, the father or the mother, likes to convince himself or herself, with a candle in the hand, that the child is asleep.

  18. It's just a game for the likes of him, making trouble for everybody.

  19. Suppose the likes of you mind the doctor.

  20. Jesus does not forget the man in caring for his soul--he likes him.

  21. Now in Jesus' case there is a quickness and vividness of sympathy--he likes the birds and flowers and beasts he uses as illustrations.

  22. One of Jesus' great lessons is to get men to look for God in the commonplace things of which God makes so many, as if Abraham Lincoln were right and God did make so many common people, because he likes them best.

  23. An airman likes an opponent worthy of his mettle; he likes even chances and the prospect of a good fight.

  24. Because the public likes to be persuaded by the clamour of cheapjack advertisement that its inside wants certain medicines, and that these medicines are worth buying at a price that makes the vendor a millionaire, there he is with his million.

  25. Because a large section of the public likes to gamble away its money on the Stock Exchange, substantial fortunes have been founded by those who have provided the public with this means of amusement.

  26. The wind may shout as it likes without; It may rage, but cannot harm us; For a merrier din shall resound within, And our Christmas cheer will warm us.

  27. And I hope there is only one," said I; "you surely would not adduce the likes and dislikes of that poor silly fellow as the criterions of the opinions of any party?

  28. I see the doctor likes a literary squabble.

  29. And the fact is, that on occasion he did express his thoughts with great frankness and no little vehemence; and, as no one likes to be told his faults by even a friendly critic, he often brought the angry hornets of democracy about his ears.

  30. As a matter of fact, he will usually be restive, and will talk at random and constrainedly, being ignorant of what that particular company likes to hear said or left unsaid.

  31. No man of inferior fortune likes to admit, as this principle asks him to, that the inferiority is in himself.

  32. And at last she said, mighty dryly, "This is a very dull place for the likes of you.

  33. So let us make the best on 't, for she is a lady that likes to have her own way.

  34. What is the likes of yez to know about art?

  35. She is doing 'lit'ery work' and likes it very much.

  36. She likes Mary Warren, who ist boor, und she does not like Obbordunity, who ist vell to do in de vorlt.

  37. And it's the part of a thoughtful man who likes to make the most of his advantages and opportunities so to do.

  38. There are painful memories to be recalled, sins to be mourned over, habits and ways of thinking and doing to be given up, likes and loves and feelings to be renounced.

  39. Of course you have noticed how Shakespeare likes this word 'mettle,' how he likes the thing.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "likes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.