How to Use dissimilar in a Sentence

dissimilar

adjective
  • The two movies are very dissimilar.
  • The question is not dissimilar to one asked earlier.
  • The writers have dissimilar backgrounds.
  • That’s not very dissimilar in the sense of the gathering together and the being present in the moment.
    Emily McFarlan Miller | Religion News Service, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2018
  • But the Trump policy is the most frustrating—not dissimilar to a smear campaign.
    Nick Pachelli, Esquire, 11 Jan. 2018
  • And while these two fellows suffered from the same trotter's turmoil, their reactions were markedly dissimilar.
    The Masked Observer, AL.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The races are wholly dissimilar, with varying distances, turning requirements and speeds.
    Bill Pennington, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The technology that China’s cloud-computing providers use is not so dissimilar.
    The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • How similar or dissimilar are the life experiences and beliefs of German teenagers and their Arab peers?
    Christoph Hasselbach, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2018
  • There is some Jeep Compass in the floating-roof design, while the overall shape is not dissimilar to the Jeep Cherokee’s.
    Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The treatment and control groups were dissimilar — that is, those getting T.P.A. were less badly affected from the start.
    Gina Kolata, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The more dissimilar these state laws, the better for the NCAA.
    Michael McCann, SI.com, 4 Oct. 2019
  • It was left for Young to complete the scoring, a goal not dissimilar to his first, in stoppage time at the end of the game.
    SI.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The roots of Pinchuk’s wealth are not dissimilar from those of the Russian oligarchs who once held court in Davos.
    Mark Landler and Matina Stevis-Gridneff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 May 2022
  • It’s not too dissimilar from what has happened in the past with an early pick for us.
    Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2021
  • When viewed through such a lens, wrestling might not seem too dissimilar to yoga.
    Don Riddell, CNN, 28 June 2021
  • To Goetz, the two clients, who fell at opposite poles of the street politics of 2020, were not so dissimilar.
    New York Times, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Some of the process, which will take about 10 months, won’t be dissimilar from work done by crews to clean up the shipping channel in the months after the bridge collapse.
    Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 8 July 2024
  • Clover’s body shape isn’t that dissimilar from some of the monsters that Godzilla and Kong have fought in the MonsterVerse films.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But beauty is in the eye of the beholder and newness is not too dissimilar.
    Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2022
  • That’s not too dissimilar than those in an Ares Management debt fund that lends to pro sports teams.
    Scott Soshnick, Sportico.com, 27 June 2024
  • Dear Depressed: You can get hooked on a person in a way that is not dissimilar from getting hooked on a drug.
    cleveland, 15 Oct. 2020
  • This is the season for granitas, a flaky ice dessert not dissimilar to shaved ice.
    Kari Sonde, Washington Post, 1 July 2019
  • The mid-size SUV has a robust and boxy shape that’s not entirely dissimilar from the Wrangler.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2022
  • New York, the greatest city in the world, had something set-like about it, not dissimilar to the sets in my father’s old productions.
    Hedia Anvar, Longreads, 23 June 2018
  • Conceptually, this is not too dissimilar from how traditional vinyl is made — a needle etches grooves in rotating lacquer, which is used to create a mother copy that is then used to form the stamper.
    Dani Deahl, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The silhouette wasn’t dissimilar to the sort Françoise Hardy and her ilk championed throughout the era.
    Alice Cary, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Although the Vols meltdown has been slightly less dramatic than the one in Starkville, the teams are not all that dissimilar.
    Christopher Smith, al, 4 Nov. 2020
  • While both airlines are known for their low fares, the two carriers are dissimilar in many ways.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland, 28 July 2022
  • Not that dissimilar from the Lincoln Town Car, the Fleetwood has a rear-wheel-drive and an 8-cylinder engine in the body of a big luxury sedan.
    Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2020

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