look like
idiom
: to have an appearance that is very similar to (someone or something) : to resemble (someone or something)
You look just like your mother!
That powdered sugar looks like snow.
Examples of look like in a Sentence
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The brand’s calling card is basics with a twist: silver rings with chain-like forms, chains that look like nothing else on the market, forms studded with semi-precious stones like lapis lazuli and turquoise.
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Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 4 Apr. 2024
Over the course of the band’s End of the Road World Tour, the two sides met in Milan and Stockholm, thinking about what a hologram show could look like.
—Robert Levine, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2024
Many of us became more sedentary during the pandemic, and walking pads look like an easy way to get back on our feet.
—Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
So the intimacy of a video of the future queen wearing jeans and a sweater, sitting on a garden bench talking about her own illness, may look like the natural thing to do to our 21st-century selves.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
The photos look like a routine encounter between a senior Chinese diplomat and immigrants in the American heartland: dutiful smiles, casual clothes, a teapot on a table, Chinese and U.S. flags on the wall.
—Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2024
In a lot of ways, the new uniforms look like the old ones.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
On the packaging, this could look like sodium fluoride, stannous fluoride, or sodium monofluorophosphate.
—Jessica Booth, Parents, 10 Mar. 2024
Read the Opinion from Navalny in 2022: This is what a post-Putin Russia should look like.
—Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 4 Apr. 2024
Over the course of the band’s End of the Road World Tour, the two sides met in Milan and Stockholm, thinking about what a hologram show could look like.
—Robert Levine, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2024
Many of us became more sedentary during the pandemic, and walking pads look like an easy way to get back on our feet.
—Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
So the intimacy of a video of the future queen wearing jeans and a sweater, sitting on a garden bench talking about her own illness, may look like the natural thing to do to our 21st-century selves.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
The photos look like a routine encounter between a senior Chinese diplomat and immigrants in the American heartland: dutiful smiles, casual clothes, a teapot on a table, Chinese and U.S. flags on the wall.
—Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2024
In a lot of ways, the new uniforms look like the old ones.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
On the packaging, this could look like sodium fluoride, stannous fluoride, or sodium monofluorophosphate.
—Jessica Booth, Parents, 10 Mar. 2024
Read the Opinion from Navalny in 2022: This is what a post-Putin Russia should look like.
—Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2024
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“Look like.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/look%20like. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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