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
• 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
• 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
• 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