Example sentences for: akin

How can you use “akin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Monte church is akin to Lourdes for these Madeirans.

  • Friends of mine, especially women, found sitting through the film akin to being smeared with excrement.

  • The most acclaimed and second highest grossing film of 1998 (just behind Armageddon ) was Saving Private Ryan . Though Steven Spielberg's film is fiction and Brokaw's book is something akin to oral history, they have in common a fashionable theme: the nobility of those who served in the armed forces during World War II and, by extension, Americans of that age in general.

  • al in 1994, of which 50% of the sample were women, the median adult only spent 4.0% of his time in light that was greater than 1000 lux [ 25 ] , a level that is akin to the light found outdoors in the shade.

  • The huge square gates that flank it are more akin to Crusader structures since their primary function was to protect the city.


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