look like

1. Have the appearance of, as in This letter looks like an acceptance . [c. 1400]

2. it looks like . It seems likely that, as in It looks like they'll invite us to dinner . [ Colloquial ; c. 1900] Also see the subsequent idioms beginning with look like .

Example Sentences

“Sac City is making us look like idiots,” he said while buying gas in the convenience store sporting one of Bradshaw’s flowers.

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It increasingly looks like Intel may need to be split up to get back on track.

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“It looks like somebody just shut off the whole city, there’s nowhere to go get help,” she said.

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Playing a former Pac-12 rival in a matchup that should have stirred some intensity, the Bruins instead looked like they had little interest in being here.

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Although there was still plenty of time left for Newcastle to get back into the game, damningly, they never truly looked like equalising.

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