Use unlike in a sentence
Sentences starting with unlike
- Unlike as he was to his brother, there was still in their eyes the same friendliness and humanity. [11]
- Unlike Lise, she was able to see life as it is, she did not expect of it miracles, economic or matrimonial. [9]
- Unlike the old theology woven of myths and a fanciful philosophy of the decadent period of Greece, natural theology was founded on science itself, and scientists were among those who sought to develop it. [9]
- Unlike the mansions of vast and imposing facades that were beginning everywhere to catch the eye on Fifth Avenue, and that followed mostly the continental styles of architecture, the house of the Cecil Graingers had a substantial, "middle of-the-eighties" appearance. [9]
- Unlike other towns of the West, it was insanitary and uneducated; it was also given to nepotism and a primitive kind of jobbery; but, on the whole, it was honest. [11]
- Unlike you gentlemen of the profession, I think the soliloquy in Hamlet commencing "Oh, my offense is rank," surpasses that commencing "To be or not to be. [7]
- Unlike many men of indulgent natures, he loved youth for the sake of his art, and he had sacrificed upon that altar more than most men-sacrificed others. [11]
- Unlike the manner of her people, Soada turned and went back into her house, and threw herself upon the mud floor, and put the folds of her garment in her mouth lest she should cry out in her agony. [11]
- Unlike the majority of half-breeds, he had a pronounced French manner, nonchalant and debonair. [11]
- Unlike her daughter, Mrs. Llyn did not offer her hand. [11]
Sentences ending with unlike
- My school-mates were very unlike. [10]
- Their resemblance was rendered all the more striking by the fact that each wore a simple, narrow circlet of gold-round the head; nay it would have seemed some unusual trick of Nature's but that their eyes were quite unlike. [10]
- For this belief implies the former existence of links binding closely together all these forms, now so utterly unlike. [1]
- She might have been the elder, for she was as tall as her sister, but how utterly unlike! [10]
Short sentences using unlike
- Guida was unlike anybody else. [11]
Sentences containing unlike two or more times
- Its style was peculiar,--almost as unlike that of his Essays as that of Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus" was unlike the style of his "Life of Schiller. [6]
- Massachusetts is unlike Louisiana, Florida unlike Tennessee, Georgia is unlike California, Pennsylvania is unlike Minnesota, and so on, and the unlikeness is not alone or chiefly in physical features. [4]
- It was unlike her, for she was usually so self-repressed; and, being unlike her, accentuated both sides of her character the more. [9]
- The cruel doctrine at which all but case-hardened "professionals" shudder cones out, as she teaches and illustrates it, as unlike its original as the milk which a peasant mother gives her babe is unlike the coarse food which furnishes her nourishment. [6]
More example sentences with the word unlike in them
- Nevertheless no one would have taken them to be even distantly related; their countenances were so infinitely unlike in expression. [10]
- Surely no one would have predicted when Ruth left Philadelphia that she would become absorbed to this extent, and so happy, in a life so unlike that she thought she desired. [5]
- She represented a whole set of new and undetermined values for which he had no precedents, and unlike every woman he had known--including his wife--she had an integrity of her own, seemingly beyond the reach of all influences economic and social. [9]
- Like the Englishman who, when he first witnessed a performance of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," cried out, "How very unlike the home life of our dear Queen! [9]
- And the falcon-seller, who was thick-set and broad-shouldered, was in truth not unlike a wild-cat in his unkempt shagginess, albeit free from all craft and guile. [10]
- They were thick, wet woods, unlike our woods of the mountains; and more than once we had excitement enough with the snakes that lay there. [9]
- As soon as we had swung clear of the cove he made for the weather stays, where he assumed a posture not unlike that in the famous picture of Farragut ascending Mobile Bay. [9]
- After all, politics was unlike everything else. [11]
- The new meeting was too unlike his expectation. [10]
- How unlike her was that monument! [9]
- What she thought was that in manner and disposition he was totally unlike Jack Delancy. [4]
- Her usual dress was a green gown, in colour not unlike the curtain of the office window, made tight to the figure, and terminating at the throat, where it was fastened behind by a peculiarly large and massive button. [12]
- Very unlike Barine's voice, too, were the deep, earnest tones trembling with emotion, in which she confronted him with the brief question, concealing a faint reproach, "Another demand? [10]
- The experience was utterly unlike my anticipation. [9]
- Papias will make us one of straw, rags and gypsum--I know his magic hand--and in order that the others may not be too unlike their new-born sister they shall be whitewashed. [10]
- It was so unlike what his past had known, so "damnable luxurious! [11]
- His smile was unlike the half-smile of other people. [2]
- Two men more unlike than he and his great artist-neighbour can hardly be imagined, though their cradles were not far apart, for the painter was born in Dusseldorf, and the clergyman at Iserlohn, in Westphalia. [10]
- A war not unlike it between the same parties occurred at the close of the last century. [7]
- Joseph Twichell, who, unlike Howells, had no scruples about Mark's 'Elizabethan breadth of parlance. [5]
- It was very unlike him, this outburst, and Carmen knew that he would indulge in it to no one else, not even to Uncle Jerry. [4]
- But how totally unlike him his father must have looked in his youth! [10]
- This being all unlike her wonted timid modesty, it amused me all the more, and the old man's demeanor likewise had made me smile; he was surly, and notwithstanding courteous to her and had said to her I know not what. [10]
- Two hands more unlike had rarely met over a chess-board; one suggested a strong, dark plough-ox, the other a light, slender-limbed palfrey. [10]
- Yet this face, unlike Eglington's, expressed a perfect single-mindedness; it wore the look of a self-effacing man of luminous force, a concentrated battery of energy. [11]
- Their patient was unlike any other that they had known. [11]
- Worth's is the trading center of the region, has a post office and a saw-mill and a big country store; and the dwelling of the proprietor is not unlike a roomy New England country house. [4]
- Two natures more totally unlike can scarcely be imagined. [10]
- Before we came to Washington I thought rebels would look unlike other people. [5]
- And it seemed to him that even the sun, which had been shining brilliantly a few minutes before in a cloudless sky, had disappeared behind clouds, for a strange twilight, unlike anything he had ever seen, surrounded him. [10]
- At the signal three men sprang up like magic out of the bowels of the boat beneath them, and scurried over the side; three as ripe knaves as ever cheated stocks and gallows, but simple knaves, unlike their master. [11]
- Afterwards I often thought simultaneously of her and Nenny, yet they were totally unlike in character, having nothing in common save their steadfast faith and the power of looking with happy confidence beyond this life into death. [10]
- His anger at those he left behind was almost madness, his humiliation was unlike anything he had ever known. [11]
- In front of this waggon two men rode, unlike in stature and mien, and a loutish fellow led the horses. [10]
- And she remembered this longing and yearning in a way very unlike a mere dream. [10]
- For living on this island is not unlike being on shipboard at sea, except that this rock does not heave about in a nauseous way. [4]
- Still more must this identification of "subject" and "object" take place when one is writing of a person whose studies or occupations are not unlike his own. [6]
- Every now and then she perceived that his eye rested on her with a compassionate expression, and when she inquired whether he were anxious about the sufferer, he gave her some evasive answer, quite unlike his usual decisive speech. [10]
- He smiled, and the smile that came in return was unlike any he had ever seen Alice Wingfield wear. [11]
- It's new, unlike the ordinary propaganda of--" "Of agitators," he supplied, with a smile. [9]
- The leaders of the Netherland nobility were figures very unlike in stature and size to Philip; but he could vie in haughty majesty with any of them. [10]
- His visitor of the morning was not unlike him in many respects. [4]
- Mr. Tiernan, like the Greeks, was happy, too: unlike the Greeks, he never appeared to be busy, and yet he throve. [9]
- Another illusion of the disease was his: that he succeeded perfectly in deceiving everybody round him with his pathetic make-believe; and, unlike most deceivers, he deceived himself as well. [11]
- The magnitude of the concerns, the admirable stoicism with which he received alarming news, his dry humour while they waited between messages--all were so unlike anything the telegraph-clerk had ever seen, or imagined, that the thing was like a preposterous dream. [11]
- Words have been spoken which appeal to me, and to you, too, Isabella: 'See that the innocent little creatures are reared to be unlike their unhappy father. [10]
- The period of social and political ferment during which "Alcuin" was put forth was not unlike that which may be said to have reached its height in extravagance and millennial expectation in 1847-48. [4]
- This curious arrangement, so unlike that in most of the lower mammals, is common to the gorilla, chimpanzee, orang, some species of Hylobates, and even to some few American monkeys. [1]
- This action was so unlike her usual composure and the fear depicted on Prince Vasili's face so out of keeping with his dignity that Pierre stopped and glanced inquiringly over his spectacles at his guide. [2]
- As the pair, so unlike each other, quitted the anteroom, Plutarch looked after them with a meaning smile and thought to himself: "That is well done. [10]
- It was all so strange, so unlike what he had hoped. [2]
- The courage and skill of the leader were all in vain; the vast multitude of which he was captain was made up of over many parts, all unlike, and each with its own chief; and the fury of the heretics scattered them abroad. [10]
- All down the shore were pavilions and bath-houses, and the scene at a distance was not unlike that when the water is occupied by schools of leaping mackerel. [4]
- Lali was primitive, she was unlike so many in a trivial world, but she was right. [11]
- He had a shambling, loose-jointed gait, not unlike that of the bear: his short legs bowed out, as if they had been more in the habit of climbing trees than of walking. [4]
- In the earlier series he had played a secondary part, and in this second series no great effort was made to create a character wholly unlike the first. [6]
- So my Kottbus school-days ended, and, unfortunately, in a way unlike what I had hoped. [10]
- All that he saw was as unlike what he had known in past years as though he had come to Mars or Jupiter. [11]
- I tried to save you, and came to see you before I thought that you might--and, indeed, you are quite unlike the people whom you call your relations. [10]
- Children of the same parents, it is true, are often very unlike, but in your little country, which speaks its own language and has many things peculiar to itself--you won't deny that--every old family has its special traits. [10]
- The little front room of this house was not unlike the one we had occupied at Kaskaskia. [9]
- Everything, in fact--every room and every image--was as unlike nature, and as far removed from ordinary types as possible, in arrangement and appearance. [10]
- Like De la Riviere, she perceived a strange combination of the gentleman and--something else; but, unlike him, she saw also a light in the face and eyes that might be genius, poetry, adventure. [11]
- At first the reveries into which she often sank, and which were so unlike her former self, had been still worse. [10]
- With this she released herself from the husband who inspired her with feelings very unlike love. [10]
- She tried to recall where she had seen it before, and suddenly remembered that the eyes of the old butler had held something not unlike it. [9]
- Perhaps he was quite unlike what Berenike thought him to be. [10]
- Really he is quite unlike him--in everything. [2]
- It's because the place doesn't express her at all that it's so unlike her. [8]
- Each admired the other with a heartiness which if they had been less unlike, would have been impossible. [6]
- He had met one unlike any he had ever known. [11]
- Hoping to enter on an entirely new life quite unlike the old one, he expected everything to be unusual, even more unusual than what he was seeing. [2]
- Here the capital of wealthy, flourishing Brabant certainly looked very unlike what she had expected from Gombert's stories; and how little share she had had hitherto in the splendour which on the drive to Landshut she had expected to find in Brussels! [10]
- He had something of the family beauty which belonged to his cousin, but his eye had a fierce passion in it, very unlike the cold glitter of Elsie's. [6]
- No two classes of people could be more unlike than the salmon-fishers of Sunburst and the mill-hands and river-drivers of Viking. [11]
- She caught glimpses of its ambitions, its unscrupulous use of its position in international relations, to gain advantage for itself, even by a dexterity which might easily bear another name, and by sudden disregard of international attachments not unlike treachery. [11]
- A few drops of alcohol bring about a confusion of mind not unlike this poetical metempsychosis. [6]
- The question is not unlike that which arises in certain cases of dislocation of the bones of the neck. [6]
- The ceremony was not unlike that at Cambridge, but had one peculiar feature: the separate special investment of the candidate with the _hood_, which Johnson defines as "an ornamental fold which hangs down the back of a graduate. [6]
- Not a feature, not a look is unlike what it used to be! [10]
- In ten minutes more we struck into a beautiful road, and unlike some others we had stumbled upon at intervals, it led in the right direction. [5]
- But when the monarch continued for some time to display an abstemiousness so unlike him, the marquise cast a hasty glance of inquiry at Malfalconnet. [10]
- A dark, sad-looking, middle-aged gentleman entered the parlor, with a young lady on his arm,--his daughter, as it seemed, for she was not wholly unlike him in feature, and of the same dark complexion. [6]
- Unlike most large men, he had a mind always alert, not requiring the inspiration of unusual moments. [11]
- This alarmed thinking men more than any previous question, because, unlike all the former, it divided the country by geographical lines. [7]
- It always pleases me to take some hint from anything he says when I can, and carry it out in a direction not unlike that of his own remark. [6]
- The old man's manner had been so unlike anything he had ever met, save, to an extent, in his father, that it interested him. [11]
- Horribly unlike a man as that body looked, she must see him. [2]
- These little birds make an extraordinary noise, the first "sharp note being not unlike the crack of a whip. [1]
- He kept Alma Leighton out of the question, because at the bottom of his heart he believed that she must be forever unlike every other woman to him. [8]
- He came at last to a house unlike the others, in that it was of stone and larger. [11]
- Like the city itself, there was a fashionable district in Winterbourne: unlike the city, this district remained stationary. [9]
- In the darkness it was silent; but the bright moonlight yonder will loose its tongue, unless the characters here are too unlike those of the prayer-book. [10]
- When the Yankee is produced he may turn out a cosmopolitan person of the most interesting and agreeable sort; and the Southerner may have traits and peculiarities, growing out of climate and social life unlike the New England, which are altogether charming. [4]
- The inscription itself is in a style of lettering unlike that used in the time of James I., and the letters are believed not to belong to an earlier period than that of the Georges. [4]
- Unlike Liberia, it is a great line of travel--it is a highway. [7]
- Unlike any other in the street, this house had a high stone wall in front, enclosing a small square paved with flat stones. [11]
- These schools are, in the nature of things, not so very unlike each other as to require a minute description for each particular one among them. [6]
- They realised that in the man who had just left the room with Kaid there were characteristics unlike those they had ever met before in Europeans. [11]
- Only one was in a simple garb, unlike the others, and she, notwithstanding her weed was clean and fitting, was arrayed in poor, grey home spun. [10]
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