something like

phrase

1

: close to : approximately

It costs something like five dollars.

2

: somewhat or slightly like

He does look something like his father.

Examples of something like in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

If something like that happens, that’s the nature of the game, unfortunately. — Rob Maaddi, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026

City Councilmember Jim Harrity spoke with CBS News Philadelphia about whether more could have been done and what steps could be taken to prevent something like this from happening again. — Frederick Sutton Sinclair, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Congratulations to Zane Li, who has now won enough young-designer prizes to have something like an EGOT, and to Aisling Camps and Emily Dawn Long, who are this year’s runners-up. — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 21 Oct. 2026

No young man should have to face something like this, and no family should have to carry the weight of this journey alone. — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Oct. 2026

Rhymes for something like

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