How to Use like this in a Sentence

like this

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  • And postcards like this one from the late 1950s were part of the proof.
    — Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2025
  • Both the Vikings and Moore needed a game like this, too.
    — Jeff Vorva, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2025
  • In the oceans, swirls like this can span thousands of miles.
    — Steve Nadis, Wired News, 1 June 2025
  • And there are a lot of people like me that make songs like this.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 14 Feb. 2025
  • What happens when the rest of the world sees images like this?
    — ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But again, this was my first time with my boyfriend on a kind of trip like this.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Not to mention that joggers like this are the chameleon of pants.
    — Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Tucker joined the squad at the end of the season for reasons like this.
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 31 May 2025
  • Shein has done pop-up stores, like this one in Plano, Tex., last year.
    — Aruni Soni, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • This was a sleepy town that had never seen crimes like this.
    — Megan Vick, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Devins has received a lot of messages like this over the years.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Think of the players like this archetype who have had success.
    — Mike Vorkunov, New York Times, 26 June 2025
  • He’s heard Chase talk like this many times before, and isn’t fazed.
    — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Now imagine 639 arenas just like this filled to the brim.
    — Sara Chernikoff, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
  • For the first time, Rita starts to question why things are like this.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The moment when something like this works feels like a hack or a cheat.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 11 May 2023
  • There's a photo of me somewhere with a bowl cut like this.
    — Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2024
  • There really are very few hikes like this in the state.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 1 Aug. 2025
  • When faced with a run like this — Estragon: All the dead voices.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Isn’t what makes a letter like this cute the fact that it is written by a child?
    — Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 30 July 2024
  • Songs like this explain why the album hit a nerve with fans.
    — Alexis Oatman, Essence, 30 Sep. 2023
  • As to how a team should react to a game like this, James didn’t have answers.
    — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • And with a deal like this, who needs to wait until Black Friday?
    — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The dusty ejecta, however, can be best studied in young systems like this.
    — Big Think, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Very hard to root for someone like this.
    — Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Acts like this make a real difference.
    — Daily News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But there is only so long a person can be expected to live like this.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Nothing like this had been written, or could have been written, before the time of Tennyson.
    — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • As is common with cases like this, things can and will get messy.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 9 Feb. 2026

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