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

And hark! what songs of love, what soul-like sounds, Answer them from below!

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

In all places, then, and in all seasons,      Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings,      Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons,      How akin they are to human things.”—LONGFELLOW.

From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Burritt, Elihu