Example Sentences

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In the end, Waldron concludes that there is no “small polished unitary soul-like substance” that makes us equal; there’s only a patchwork of arguments for our deep equality, collectively compelling but individually limited.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 6, 2020

He finds comfort, finally, not in the belief that there is a soul-like self trapped in his father’s addled brain but in the memory of the person Ed was before.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2014

None of the toys looked particularly soul-like, she thought.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

It filled the night, swept the glittering reaches, groped about in the glooms; and then, leaving the human theme behind, soul-like the upward yearning violins took flight, dissolving at last into starlight and immensity.

From The River and I by Neihardt, John G.

The act of inventing print, or of applying steam, is quite as soul-like as the inventing of a picture, poem, or statue.

From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel