anything like

phrase

: in any way : at all

it's not anything like as good as it used to be

Examples of anything like in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Interim manager Andy Green, a baseball lifer, had never seen anything like it. — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 10 July 2026

And if your neighbor happens to be anything like the late Princess Margaret, be prepared to complain to the landlord. — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 9 July 2026

Only when Freya Kemp joined her captain in an unbeaten stand of 80 off the last 55 balls, making 44 off 28 deliveries, did England look anything like pulling off an upset. — Paul Newman, New York Times, 5 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1529, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for anything like

• statesmanlike
• alike
• belike
• birdlike
• catlike
• childlike
• christlike
• deathlike
• dislike
• dreamlike
• friedreich
• godlike