something like

Idioms  

1. Similar to, resembling, as in They want a flower garden something like the ones they saw in England. [Mid-1600s]

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Example Sentences

"Doing something like… star-mapping is very inexpensive."

From BBC

"What's fascinating about something like red vs blue is the layers and layers of lore built into it that make it so utterly impenetrable to anyone not swimming in the right end of the pool it originated from," he explains.

From BBC

"I can viscerally feel what it's like to feel the ripples of the effect of something like that happening in real life," she says.

From BBC

“Nobody had done something like this,” Santa Cruz says.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The Bride!” is a film about being one thing when the world tells you to be another, and — as we’ve already seen with Guillermo Del Toro’s more faithful, Oscar-nominated adaptation — viewers take much kinder to the standard, thousandth retelling of “Frankenstein” than something like Gyllenhaal’s version, which is a truly fresh idea.

From Salon

Related Words

• basically
• essentially
• nearly
• practically