look like

idiom

: to have an appearance that is very similar to (someone or something) : to resemble (someone or something)

You look just like your mother!

That powdered sugar looks like snow.

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Election results that look like victory for one candidate at 10 p.m. could shift the other way at 11:30 p.m., or even later. —

Graham Kates, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024 Some believed a member of JonBenét’s family staged her death to look like a kidnapping, but DNA evidence in 2008 exonerated the immediate family members. —

Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024 Business jets often look like exclusive tools for executives and the ultra-wealthy. —

Julie Boatman, Robb Report, 29 Oct. 2024 Petroglyphs made by Indigenous cultures alongside dinosaur tracks, or even fashioned to look like footprints left by three-toed dinosaurs, indicate that people have been fascinated with dinosaur fossils for centuries, if not millennia. —

Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for look like