Example sentences for: likes

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

  • Their voices went unheeded by the likes of Peel, Russell, and Trevelyan, and the ideology of laissez-faire political economy meshed with anti-Irish bigotry to produce catastrophic results for the Irish poor.

  • USA Today , which through the miracle of extended newsstand dating becomes the first U.S. daily newspaper to appear with a 2000 time-hack, gives its front over to an essay, "The Next Century," which spends most of its time reviewing this one, predictably arcing over the likes of McCarthyism, Martin Luther King, and Dylan but then swerving into the writer's mother's sister and his wife's mother.

  • Nike CEO Phil Knight likes to pose as capitalism with a human face, a man devoted to social justice.

  • If one likes this sort of thing, there is no keeping him down, I suppose, and if one must have a collection of dedications, I suppose it ought to be Adrian Room's.

  • After all, there exists a tendency these days that is eager to reclaim the likes of Norman Rockwell while consigning to his former cell Clement Greenberg and his exemplars.


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