How to Use and the like in a Sentence

and the like

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  • When navigating airports, train stations, and the like, a belt bag is hard to beat.
    — Jacquelyn McGilvray, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
  • Tolkien isn’t some grimdark fantasy writer whose work is all about deadly weddings and the like.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
  • The highway between the cities and parks is your average roadway, with gas stations, restaurants, and the like.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2026
  • Wireless plans are ridiculously complex, filled with hard-to-understand surcharges, fees, add-ons, and the like.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 14 July 2026
  • Most of our work is technical research papers, comment letters, amicus briefs, and the like.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Insects and the like Most of the species cats ate were vertebrates – mostly birds, followed by mammals and reptiles.
    — Christopher A. Lepczyk, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
  • What happens next is that accounts payable becomes the cleanup department, wasting work hours matching invoices to emails, credit card statements and the like.
    — Andrew Zhyvolovych, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Cluttered Counters Make meal prep and clean up a breeze by keeping your counters streamlined, not filled to the max with appliances and canisters and the like.
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 9 June 2026
  • On top of that, Tom James has been expanding its catalog beyond traditional suits into sweaters, jeans, jackets and the like.
    — Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 21 July 2026
  • Some pumps in the show took embellishment to the next level, adding beads, charms, feathers and the like to create a maximalist landscape across the upper; this aesthetic was seen among some garments as well.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Over the last decade or so, military news has been inundated with discussions on the latest developments in drones, artificial intelligence (AI), and the like.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026
  • While not every instance is this costly, the fact remains that many companies incur some kind of additional cost due to unnecessary spend, lax budget enforcement, supply irregularities and the like.
    — Andrew Zhyvolovych, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Those came on the back of the two English clubs breaching the governing body’s football earnings rule, which limits the size of financial loss clubs can record, after deductions for ‘good’ expenditure on infrastructure, youth teams and the like.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • The proposal also lays out a set of lighter guidelines for battery energy storage centers, proposing a 100-foot distance from schools, houses, hospitals and the like, along with similar restrictions on lighting and noise.
    — Ilana Arougheti july 14, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
  • Between impending war, threats of AI, and what feels like daily outbreaks of foodborne illness—who can blame Gracie, Olivia, and the like for rising to the occasion of an undeniably cruel summer.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 23 July 2026
  • One more World Cup title, and Messi will become a part of the conversation for the greatest athlete of all time, alongside Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Michael Phelps, and the like.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 18 July 2026
  • Intended for hyperscalers and the like, the Kyber NVL144 rack consolidates 144 Nvidia chips into a single system that costs many millions of dollars.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 7 July 2026

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