How to Use anything like in a Sentence

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• Just make sure the plant isn’t touching anything like a wall or another plant, as ants can use that as a bridge.
  — Anne Readel, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 July 2026
• Away back along the old sewer bank, the old place is anything like home either, now creating a deeper sense of loss for the supporters.
  — Lee Clayton, New York Times, 4 Aug. 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
• If third-year QB Bo Nix and Waddle have anything like that kind of connection, look out.
  — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 15 July 2026
• And yet organizations are not becoming effective at anything like the rate their tools are becoming cheap.
  — Dr. Aditya Vikram Kashyap, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
• Interim manager Andy Green, a baseball lifer, had never seen anything like it.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 10 July 2026
• And actually, that combination often turns out to be inevitable if your travel companions are anything like mine.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 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
• Getting the product into the places where wealthy customers already holiday achieves something remarkably similar without carrying anything like the same property burden.
  — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
• The jury is still out on whether Costco’s Raspberry Lemon Loaf tastes anything like the member-favorite Blueberry Lemon Loaf from years past.
  — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 July 2026
• Still, only one person became a celluloid legend from Universal’s gambit — and that person wasn’t Carlos Villarias, who outlived Lugosi by two decades yet never achieved anything like the same renown.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 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