How to Use anything like in a Sentence

anything like

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  • 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
  • If third-year QB Bo Nix and Waddle have anything like that kind of connection, look out.
    Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 15 July 2026
  • Interim manager Andy Green, a baseball lifer, had never seen anything like it.
    Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 10 July 2026
  • Nationals reliever Max Kranick had never seen anything like it.
    Spencer Nusbaum, New York Times, 1 July 2026
  • But even the raw, unaltered Last Waltz footage doesn’t capture anything like a typical Band concert since there were so many guests, and the entire thing was constructed for a movie.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 20 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

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