How to Use something like in a Sentence

something like

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  • Nor is this limited to something like the World Cup, of course.
    — Roger Trapp, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • That is, at least by today’s standards, something like a consensus.
    — Elizabeth C. Tippett, The Conversation, 29 June 2026
  • Witt has become something like the Simon Cowell of struggle meals.
    — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • That may look something like SailGP, which just finished that process earlier this year.
    — Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 June 2026
  • With the stock rising something like 1,400% in the past five years, employees who have held on to their stock have secured much more value from Nvidia than a free lunch.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 1 July 2026
  • Kandalec recommends opting for something like Olive & June’s Aqua Velvet.
    — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 2 July 2026
  • The theft has left manager Mona Lin shaken, having never expected something like this to happen in Eagan.
    — Jason Rantala, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • But the observatory is covered in something like aluminum foil for thermal insulation, and no one knows what state this layer is in because no one has seen Swift up close for 20 years.
    — Anna Y. Q. Ho, Scientific American, 29 June 2026
  • Rather than just letting humanities departments die off, red-state legislatures have flooded public universities with something like a Works Progress Administration for academics.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • The specific irony of something like an Hermès HAC being categorized as hyperfeminine is that the bag was created in the late 19th century as a carryall for horse riding equipment, much like the rest of the brand’s offerings at the time.
    — Teddy Brown, CNN Money, 30 June 2026

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