like to

Idioms  

1. Also, liked to. Come close to, be on the point of. For example, We like to froze to death, or He liked to have never got away. This expression, now considered a colloquialism from the American South, dates from the early 1400s and was used several times by Shakespeare.

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Example Sentences

Afterwards, when a local reporter asked him what it felt like to enter the ring, he replied: “You can’t allow yourself to hear the noise. You have to go in with a purpose.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“I know for a fact, a lot of men like to show off their collection,” Adam Campbell, sports cards specialist with Heritage Auction, said.

From Los Angeles Times

"We have ongoing studies using other repurposed drugs that can impact senescence as well as studies in other rodent models of epilepsy. We would like to understand the critical windows for intervention in epilepsy, and the hope is that these studies will lead to clinically useful treatments," says Forcelli.

From Science Daily

"For me, it is something special to have rediscovered Moema claudiae. This has shown that we now have the opportunity to preserve this species in the wild. I am all the more pleased because Prof. Wilson Costa named this species after his wife Claudia, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank him especially for decades of collaboration and support."

From Science Daily

It’s just a question of capturing what it feels like to move on.

From Los Angeles Times