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

"To us that's strange because I'm a '90s kid, and to be told something like that is now vintage is bizarre," he said.

From BBC

“Something like this was always going to happen,” said Aron Lund, a longtime Syria expert and security analyst at Century International, a policy institute.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Unless it’s an emergency C-section or something like that, it’s known well ahead of time and you can plan for it,” he said.

From MarketWatch

“These four years have reduced me to something like pauperism,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Because it is hard to put something like that into words. And that’s when I first realized what I’m doing is OK and isn’t wrong. … That’s when I wanted the members to be involved in this process from a very early stage, because I think it gave me a lot of reason to love me for myself and going on this path together, I think they were able to see it from a vantage point that not a lot of others really could.”

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• basically
• essentially
• nearly
• practically