something like

Idioms and Phrases

Similar to, resembling, as in They want a flower garden something like the ones they saw in England . [Mid-1600s]

Example Sentences

Olsen: When the role came to you — and I don’t know if you went through something like this with “The Color Purple” — did you have any hesitation because of the fact that it’s so well known and there was going to be so much expectation on it?

From Los Angeles Times

Erivo: I did a little bit, mainly to just make sure that ... it’s like you want to, you have to — I feel like when you do something like this and someone has originated a role and has made it what it is, I felt like it was really important to connect with her.

From Los Angeles Times

“One thousand percent, if the boys said something like that, I would honor that,” Beauvais says.

From Los Angeles Times

"In some population studies, looking at a random selection of people who had MRIs but no diagnosis, when we specifically look for Chiari malformations you find something like up to 4% of the population has it, but it doesn't necessarily cause them any problems," Gupta said.

From Science Daily

I wouldn't want to be trying to do school homework in a cold room or to have this compound something like dementia.

From BBC

Related Words

• basically
• essentially
• nearly
• practically