How to Use like this in a Sentence
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Both the Vikings and Moore needed a game like this, too.
—Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
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And there are a lot of people like me that make songs like this.
—Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
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What happens when the rest of the world sees images like this?
—ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
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But again, this was my first time with my boyfriend on a kind of trip like this.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Feb. 2024
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Not to mention that joggers like this are the chameleon of pants.
—Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2023
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Shein has done pop-up stores, like this one in Plano, Tex., last year.
—Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
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This was a sleepy town that had never seen crimes like this.
—Megan Vick, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2024
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Devins has received a lot of messages like this over the years.
—Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
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He’s heard Chase talk like this many times before, and isn’t fazed.
—Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2023
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Now imagine 639 arenas just like this filled to the brim.
—Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
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For the first time, Rita starts to question why things are like this.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2024
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The moment when something like this works feels like a hack or a cheat.
—Andrew Webster, The Verge, 11 May 2023
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There's a photo of me somewhere with a bowl cut like this.
—Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
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When faced with a run like this — Estragon: All the dead voices.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2023
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Isn’t what makes a letter like this cute the fact that it is written by a child?
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 30 July 2024
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Songs like this explain why the album hit a nerve with fans.
—Alexis Oatman, Essence, 30 Sep. 2023
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As to how a team should react to a game like this, James didn’t have answers.
—Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
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And with a deal like this, who needs to wait until Black Friday?
—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2023
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No one in the history of the league has done anything like this at 38 years old.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
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—Philip Elliott, Time, 16 June 2023
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—Philip Eliott / Detroit, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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—Philip Elliott, TIME, 10 Oct. 2024
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—Philip Elliott, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024
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—Philip Elliott, TIME, 13 Aug. 2024
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—Philip Elliott, TIME, 8 July 2024
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Dee explained in the video how much a memorial like this meant to him.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2023
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An e-mail like this should not even be opened, let alone allowed to go on for this long.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
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Her résumé goes like this: lots of mags and billboards.
—Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
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And for the most part, the best thing that an executive like myself can do when working with someone like John, and on a show like this, is to get out of the way.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
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My mother had shown me how to live like this—to move lightly through the world, to carry only what’s needed, to turn small acts into a kind of prayer.
—Daniela Diaz, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2025
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