How to Use more like in a Sentence

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  • Not very bright in tone, the song feels more like a wish than a declaration.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2026
  • But some fans think the translucent design looks less like webbing and more like a not-safe-for-work liquid.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Michelle Monaghan is making midlife look less like a slowdown and more like a second wind.
    — Mara Santilli, Flow Space, 2 July 2026
  • Add in the sweaty hikes, camping trips, and outdoor events, and your laundry room can start to smell more like a locker room.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 June 2026
  • Most of the interactions with talent feel more like a fan with a huge following that anything else.
    — Rick Ellis, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • In real life, friendships tend to end more like a candle that gradually reaches the end of its wick.
    — Joy Harden Bradford, AJC.com, 2 July 2026
  • That makes the holiday-week backdrop look less like a policy turning point and more like a slow, uneven summer drift.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 July 2026
  • The chickens, treated less like livestock and more like family, are the reason nobody listens.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2026
  • Tokenomics, not just throughput Agents behave more like traders than bots executing batch jobs.
    — Harsha Kotikela, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Few acts could or would do something like this — a music festival that feels less like a tour stop or a business venture and more like a generous gift to the fans.
    — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2026
  • Their stomachs function more like large, expandable bags rather than tight muscular containers.
    — Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • One place to start is by making long weekends feel less like oases in a desert, and more like reminders of the country Americans built the machine to serve.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Think of it less like one AI on the line and more like a small team of focused specialists, each good at a particular kind of reasoning.
    — Saran Siva, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Bomb Pop Original Popsicle Few desserts feel more like summer than a Bomb Pop.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 2 July 2026
  • Brushing, flossing and regular cleanings function less like cosmetic upkeep and more like the kind of low-cost preventive habit that shows up in lifespan data years down the line.
    — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
  • Basically, supersonic civilian travel would sound more like a car door slamming than an explosive gunblast to anyone at ground level.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 July 2026
  • That sounds less like a charity pitch and more like something delivered over a PowerPoint slide in a boardroom, which appears to be exactly the point.
    — Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The experience feels less like touring a luxury property and more like being welcomed into someone’s home—the atmosphere the team set out to create.
    — Tia Lovisa Moreira, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
  • The broader lesson is that international money transfer is becoming less like a specialty service and more like a normal part of mobile banking life.
    — Felysha Walker, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
  • In more advanced environments, infrastructure behaves less like a set of independent systems and more like a connected set of services.
    — Brian Gruttadauria, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Although it’s often painted as a precious-metals rush, asteroid mining may first look more like the creation of fuel depots, life-support stations and supply chains for spacecraft.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Imagine infrastructure that behaves less like static software and more like adaptive biological defense.
    — Akhilesh Sharma, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Those operating more like cloud service providers are already managing workloads across public and on-prem environments, which makes this transition more immediate and more complex.
    — Brian Gruttadauria, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Las Catalinas feels more like a charming European seaside village than a traditional resort community.
    — Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The combined heat and humidity the Northeast will experience is set to make conditions more like the southeastern United States and much of the tropics.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Simplifying the Transfer Experience That experience is beginning to look much more like the rest of consumer finance.
    — Felysha Walker, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
  • The Silicon Valley startup has the kind of energy that feels more like a team racing toward a scoreboard than a traditional enterprise software company waiting for a procurement cycle to move.
    — Connie Etemadi, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
  • What is next on his roadmap, healthcare access, small business tax treatment, AI and likeness rights, sounds less like a creator economy wish list and more like the agenda of any maturing labor force finally organizing around its actual needs.
    — Zoe Soon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The Resort at Pelican Hill was chosen for its expansive cinematic setting and architectural character, aspects that make a stay feel more like spending time in a residence than a conventional hotel.
    — Katie Sweeney, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • To fix this, the researchers replace it with a general-purpose Linux distribution, giving them a more programmable environment and allowing the cluster to behave more like conventional compute infrastructure.
    — New Atlas, 2 July 2026

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