UNLIKE in a Sentence
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145 example sentences for UNLIKE, such as:
1. This professor was very unlike his colleague.
2. Dan's actually quite nice, unlike his father.
3. This was a foreign country, so unlike San Jose.
4. Pigs may fly, but they are very unlikely birds.
5. It's most unlikely that she'll arrive before seven.
2. Dan's actually quite nice, unlike his father.
3. This was a foreign country, so unlike San Jose.
4. Pigs may fly, but they are very unlikely birds.
5. It's most unlikely that she'll arrive before seven.
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Meanings and Examples of UNLIKE
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unlike
a. marked by dissimilarity
a. not equal in amount
Classic Sentence: (107 in 8 pages)
1 This professor was very unlike his colleague.
2 The girl was young and of gentle demeanour, unlike what I have since found cottagers and farmhouse servants to be.
3 My organs were indeed harsh, but supple; and although my voice was very unlike the soft music of their tones, yet I pronounced such words as I understood with tolerable ease.
4 Her voice was musical but unlike that of either of my friends.
5 She played a simple air, and her voice accompanied it in sweet accents, but unlike the wondrous strain of the stranger.
6 I found myself similar yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read and to whose conversation I was a listener.
7 But there was Jordan beside me who, unlike Daisy, was too wise ever to carry well-forgotten dreams from age to age.
8 But, unlike the little stream, she danced and sparkled, and prattled airily along her course.
9 It is enough," said she; "to say that he is unlike Fanny is enough.
10 Willoughby's behaviour in taking leave of them, his embarrassment, and affectation of cheerfulness, and, above all, his unwillingness to accept her mother's invitation, a backwardness so unlike a lover, so unlike himself, greatly disturbed her.
11 They will be brought up," said he, in a serious accent, "to be as unlike myself as is possible.
12 You are in a melancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy.
13 Mrs. Palmer was several years younger than Lady Middleton, and totally unlike her in every respect.
14 In its small proportions, it was not unlike the kind of place usually assigned to a gate-porter in Paris.
15 We dined soon after I awoke, off a roast fowl and a pudding; I sitting at table, not unlike a trussed bird myself, and moving my arms with considerable difficulty.
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1 Poles of the same name repel each other; poles of unlike name attract each other.
2 This time, unlike gullible investors during the 1920s, the big losers would be taxpayers, who never had the choice of not playing.
3 In other controversial news, it seems that the Germans are getting irritable, which is most unlike them.
4 And unlike prior P. fiction, a detectable story thread develops out of "the restless progress" of the two scientists.
5 Where we are fortunate is to be dependent on actual imports of oil only to a limited degree, unlike Japan and some European states.
6 Dan's actually quite nice, unlike his father.
7 They are so unlike nobody would believe they were sisters.
8 This was a foreign country, so unlike San Jose.
9 I vividly recall the smell of damp wool and coal gas, which was unlike anything I'd experienced before.
10 She was a small, dainty child, unlike her sister who was large and had big feet.
11 Donna might be able to come tomorrow, but it's very unlikely.
12 Although unemployment rose last month, this is unlikely to dampen down wage demands.
13 It's most unlikely that she'll arrive before seven.
14 Pigs may fly, but they are very unlikely birds.
15 On the evidence of their recent matches, it is unlikely the Spanish team will win the cup.