How to Use like in a Sentence

like

1 of 4 verb
  • What is it that you like or dislike about him most?
  • She says she likes him as a friend but she's not attracted to him.
  • He likes baseball, but he loves football.
  • My boss was a tough guy, but I liked him for his honesty.
  • I don't know what it is about that guy, but I just don't like him.
  • I liked the movie a lot more than I thought I would.
  • Do you like Mexican food?
  • They were political allies who truly liked each other.
  • The slugs even seemed to like them.
    — Kristine Gill, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 May 2026
  • But which one do you like the most?
    — Big Think, 25 Sep. 2025
  • All your friends don’t like to do work.
    — Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2025
  • So, all in all, what’s not to like?
    — Andrés Martinez, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Don't like a liar, can't stand a thief.
    — Tony Peterson, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The crowd knows it and does not like it.
    — Franklin Leonard, Vanity Fair, 14 May 2026
  • That means this move comes with a lot to like.
    — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2026
  • Miller liked what Pope showed him.
    — Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Of course, Young likes to win too.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Don Coryell would’ve liked their verve.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The crate should be a place that your dog likes to be in.
    — Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
  • All that said, there’s a lot to like about the guard play.
    — Cj Moore, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • All of my sisters liked math as well.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 June 2026
  • So far, the market seems to like it.
    — Ellen Sheng, CNBC, 19 May 2026
  • Ralph was mellow but liked to play hard.
    — Will Croxton, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • A lot of people kind of like to stay put.
    — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 18 Sep. 2025
  • No one likes to see streaking of any kind.
    — Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The Duke of York liked bold ideas.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Simply put, there’s a lot to like.
    — Mark Coppock, PC Magazine, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Well, who likes the feeling of oily skin?
    — Mary Honkus, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Some will like you and many people won’t.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Baez didn't like the painting at the time.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026

like

2 of 4 noun
  • But to deal with the likes of Dario!
    — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
  • There is no escape for the likes of us.
    — Jason Roeder, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • Trump likes to play games with people.
    — NBC news, 28 June 2026
  • Leo is dead set against the likes of angels.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The post has more than 78,000 likes.
    — Will Steakin, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Things like likes and follows or the coolest outfit.
    — Elise Devlin, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Each season, the hair pro likes to reinvent the wheel.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • The best choice for you comes down to personal likes.
    — Mira Miller, Verywell Health, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The post got more than nineteen thousand likes.
    — Clare Malone, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The post has more than 260,000 likes.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
  • Wednesday night will be pleasant and spring-like.
    — Lauren Bostwick, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Four frozen jalapeño slices - The drink starts to feel more cocktail-like.
    — Noel Burgess, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • With its cozy, cobbler-like feel, it’s best served straight from the pan, à la mode.
    — Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Try to get all of it, even though your potato may look a little moon-like.
    — Aly Walansky, Southern Living, 29 June 2026
  • This is the kind of performance Trump likes.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Others will be taken over by the likes of us or others.
    — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • People just want to bully and get the likes and say the rage bait comment.
    — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Good news simply does not generate the same clicks and likes as bad.
    — Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2026
  • The second type of polyp is small, wart-like and occurs in clusters.
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The show amassed over 1B views and 250M+ likes.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The post has now racked up over 37 million likes (and counting).
    — Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 10 June 2026
  • Indoors, the 12-year-old likes to practice his drum skills.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 2 June 2026
  • Many of his latest posts have received 10 times as many replies as likes.
    — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But the artists’ posts about their creations can amass hundreds of thousands of likes.
    — Vivian Wang, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
  • At match time expect a dip to the upper-80s with a feels-like of 96.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
  • Karim acknowledged the comment with a like.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2026
  • He is being held to the same standard as the likes of Derek Jeter.
    — Troy Renck The Denver Post, Arkansas Online, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Each one accrues millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026
  • Their likes, dislikes and not just from a category point of view but from a life point of view.
    — Kanika Talwar, Footwear News, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Since it was posted, the video has drawn tens of thousands of likes and a wave of amused reactions.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025

like

3 of 4 preposition
  • The house looks like a barn.
  • It's like when we were kids.
  • She's not at all like her sister.
  • The baby is more like his mother than his father.
  • This sure didn't feel like that.
    — CBS News, 21 June 2026
  • What that may look like, or where?
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Seems like at least that part is true.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 3 Oct. 2025
  • My high-school years were spent much like theirs.
    — Eli Durst, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Feels like a movie from the ’40s.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Open air is what [Texas] smells like.
    — Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • So that, to me, was like, That clicks.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The sun falls out of heaven like a stone.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026
  • That seems like a universe away.
    — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The ant, curled like a comma in my palm.
    — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • This game felt like a step toward that goal.
    — Arpon Basu, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • What was the music video shoot like?
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 7 Nov. 2025
  • What was the process of getting this job like?
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 10 Feb. 2026
  • And at one point like, the police come over.
    — Anthony Mason, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • That might sound like a recipe for bad painting.
    — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Things in my head are spinning around like teacups.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Virtue isn’t quite like other hair care brands.
    — Tory Johnson, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • That's what this agreement sounds like.
    — CBS News, 24 May 2026
  • The work was a gut punch for an old teacher like me.
    — Justin Reich, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The best of it feels like being watched over, not watched.
    — Robert J. Szczerba, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • Redick was asked what his team’s mood was like at practice.
    — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2026
  • The Mets like him for the final bullpen spot.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • By 2025, those places blinked out like starlight.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Is this what Armand feels like all the time?
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 8 June 2026
  • In that light, two hundred and fifty years seems like a very long time.
    — Jelani Cobb, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Try streaming games like these for free on Fubo.
    — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026

like

4 of 4 adverb
  • So what seed types do birds like best?
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Dec. 2025
  • So what seed types do birds like best?
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2026
  • What else would Konik like to see?
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 14 Nov. 2025
  • There will be a movie theater, upstairs like, sort of, restaurant area.
    — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • There will be a movie theater, upstairs like, sort of, restaurant area.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 3 July 2023
  • What would Mama's collard greens taste like without ham?
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The face of the watch isn’t flush like on the Active models, however.
    — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The face of the watch isn’t flush like on the Active models, however.
    — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2023
  • What were the earliest sharks like, and when did some sharks come to dominate the marine food chain?
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Aegon usurped the throne all sneaky like from Rhaenyra and her husband, Daemon.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
  • Chicks Our littlest Peeps like to make dioramas, too.
    — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
  • There were like, eight people sitting at the dinner table having drinks and looking at the plans.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Jude’s were like, drink a bottle of whiskey a day and follow people around as an FBI agent.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Jeezy is opening up like never before in a new interview with Nia Long.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Wine was now more than ever being drunk at home, welcoming women to the drinking fold like never before.
    — Sadhbh O'Sullivan, refinery29.com, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The display will update once per second when in Always On mode instead of once per minute like before.
    — Hayden Field,ashley Capoot,kif Leswing,todd Haselton, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2024
  • On the back of each gift card, Best Buy warns customers to never use it for payment outside of Best Buy like for bills, bail or taxes.
    — USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The trick to wearing glasses that take up half your face is to choose a pair that’s mostly clear—or even better with subtle colored lenses like at Etro or Missoni.
    — Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2023
  • There was about 60 percent of me that was like, Sister Squire’s right, and Lady Parts should be commenting on more serious things.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 June 2024
  • Of like, being able to shape these conversations and have smart people on who might be a little bit below what might go on the bigger podcast, but might have something interesting to say about what’s happening that’s relevant to a lot of people here.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • Assuming the Raptors want to keep building around Barnes with like-aged and complementary players, there will be urgency to address both of their situations — with trades or contract extensions — so the Raptors don’t lose an important player for no return.
    — Eric Koreen, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026

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