How to Use something like in a Sentence

something like

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  • Who tf would send something like that?
    — Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Or, at the very least, something like it.
    — Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Maybe four to eight hours overnight shifts and something like that.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
  • And why was now the right time to work on something like this?
    — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 May 2024
  • There's something like 5% left.
    — Outside Online, 25 Mar. 2026
  • This is not the first time something like this has happened.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Thank you for taking the time to get something like this open.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 18 July 2025
  • That's a great honor to be dubbed something like that.
    — Daniela Avila, PEOPLE, 4 Jan. 2026
  • What goes into the prep process to pull something like this off?
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Do people who haven't lost the kids feel something like that?
    — Abc News, ABC News, 9 June 2025
  • And in a sense, something like that does happen.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Any prospect the speaker will put something like that on the floor?
    — ABC News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • This isn’t the first time something like this has happened.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Pittsburgh is now one of just a few that has something like this.
    — Barry Pintar, CBS News, 29 July 2026
  • Who would have thought something like that would have been a global hit?
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Spices don’t go bad the same way something like cottage cheese does.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
  • There couldn’t be a better time to be a part of something like that.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 30 Mar. 2026
  • If there is buildup stuck on the brush, scrub with something like a toothbrush.
    — Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Her mother sliced the knife through the air, and said something like hut-cha!
    — Nell Freudenberger, The New Yorker, 28 July 2024
  • How common is something like that?
    — Sharyn Alfonsi, CBS News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Theaters could use something like that.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2026
  • This isn’t the first time something like this has happened in the tri-state area.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe seven months, something like that.
    — Lisa Rozner, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Our people know what to do if something like that was to happen.
    — Stephanie Gravalese, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Was the risk of something like what happened ever on your mind?
    — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Put a workforce out here to deter something like that.
    — Kaicey Baylor, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • There was a processing lag, and then shock and something like fear.
    — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Great actors, something like that.
    — Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
  • But with something like gardening, there is no such thing.
    — William Jones, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
  • That might be something like popping wheelies, which can be seen in the videos.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 23 July 2024

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