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Example sentences for "somewhat like"

  • FN#31] Whatever this material may be, it is hung outside with a curtain, somewhat like a large four-post bed.

  • The remittance is usually wrapped up in paper, and placed in a sealed leathern bag, somewhat like a portfolio, upon which is worked the name of the person entitled to receive it.

  • Somewhat cordate; somewhat like a heart in shape.

  • Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness.

  • Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.

  • A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

  • Its smell is rank and disagreeable, somewhat like that of chlorine.

  • It possesses a peculiar smell, somewhat like that of assaf[oe]tida, and a bitterish taste.

  • It has an agreeable smell, somewhat like vanilla, which is most manifest when it is ground.

  • The young trunk is somewhat like that of the Oreodoxa regia, or an asparagus immensely magnified; but it frequently grows larger above than below.

  • That is somewhat like for a man of your degree.

  • So, that is somewhat like; but, pranky-coat, nay when?

  • Aunt Joyce, looking up, with (it seemed me) somewhat like laughter in her eyes.

  • It is somewhat like a cucumber, about three inches round, and of a yellowish red color.

  • The tooth or tusk of the Elephant, which grows on each side of his trunk; it is somewhat like a horn in shape.

  • Thus, you see, comparing the tonnage of a warship with that of a merchant ship is somewhat like comparing a pound with a bushel.

  • Its silken covering is first laid out on the ground and into the centre is introduced a beautifully-designed disc of aluminium, somewhat like a large inverted saucer, of exceeding lightness but of ample strength for what it has to do.

  • In this it is somewhat like a torpedo, but in this case the propeller is set vertically so that its action lifts the mine up in the water.

  • Borde, is somewhat like that of a common cougar; it has long black hair, a long tail, and large whiskers, but is much less than the other.

  • It is somewhat like a hare, but has the external covering of a hog, its long coat concealing its little stump of a tail.

  • The colour is between olive, brown, and bronze,--somewhat like that of the mulatto.

  • Its feet are armed with claws, somewhat like those of the badger.

  • In shape it is somewhat like a weasel, and is the largest of the tree martens.

  • Mr. Darwin met with this in a region where the vegetation is so luxuriant that the branches of the trees extend over the sea, somewhat like those of a shrubbery of evergreens over a gravel walk.

  • The leaves are long, and cut into numerous rounded lobes, somewhat like those of the Ceterach; and the habit of the shrub is spreading and pleasing.

  • It grows on a weak and feeble plant, somewhat like vines, which is unable to support itself without props or stakes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "somewhat 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:
    abide here; fresh gale; further enacted; good grace; hewn stone; horse artillery; informed them; large majorities; might never; pretty maiden; sand hill; sharp minor; small business; somewhat compressed; somewhat curious; somewhat curved; somewhat doubtful; somewhat flattened; somewhat later; somewhat less; somewhat long; somewhat surprised; thousands upon; three great; white buffalo; wrote home