DISSIMILAR in a Sentence

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For DISSIMILAR, below is one of 11 sentences:
In this case, however, although the occasion of the entertainment was similar, the company was strikingly dissimilar.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISSIMILAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dissimilar
 a.  different; unlike
Classic Sentence:
1  Dr. Grant and Mrs. Norris were seldom good friends; their acquaintance had begun in dilapidations, and their habits were totally dissimilar.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  And when farther pressed, had added, that in her opinion their dispositions were so totally dissimilar as to make mutual affection incompatible; and that they were unfitted for each other by nature, education, and habit.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  There never were two people more dissimilar.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  In this case, however, although the occasion of the entertainment was similar, the company was strikingly dissimilar.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
5  Mr. Heathcliff may have entirely dissimilar reasons for keeping his hand out of the way when he meets a would-be acquaintance, to those which actuate me.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
6  They are utterly dissimilar in all respects.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
7  In outer aspect, Pip and Dough-Boy made a match, like a black pony and a white one, of equal developments, though of dissimilar colour, driven in one eccentric span.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
8  To the wingless a more arresting phenomenon is their dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
9  The dissimilarity is not so strong.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence:
1  But overall, the new parliament will not be too dissimilar from the old.
2  His methods were not dissimilar to those used by Freud.