ALIKE in a Sentence

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Whereas, we, dear wife of my bosom, could have been perfectly happy if you had ever given us half a chance, for we are so much alike.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALIKE
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alike
 a.  similar; in the same manner or to the same degree
Classic Sentence: (106 in 8 pages)
1  Scarlett had a sudden treacherous desire to cry out, "But you've been happy, and you and Mother aren't alike," but she repressed it, fearing that he would box her ears for her impertinence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  We are alike, Melanie, loving the same quiet things, and I saw before us a long stretch of uneventful years in which to read, hear music and dream.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  Already soldiers and civilians alike were feeling the pinch, and the muttering against him and his fellow speculators was bitter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  I love you, Scarlett, because we are so much alike, renegades, both of us, dear, and selfish rascals.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  We don't all think alike or act alike and it's wrong to--to judge others by ourselves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  Perhaps it was because, as he often said, they were so much alike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
7  We still think alike but we react differently.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
8  Whereas, we, dear wife of my bosom, could have been perfectly happy if you had ever given us half a chance, for we are so much alike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
9  Night witchery and morning disillusion were alike forgotten in the march of realities and days.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  She hated herself and the town's indifferent cruelty when she saw Bea's radiant devotion to both babies alike; when she saw Miles staring at them wistfully.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
11  Nine-tenths of the American towns are so alike that it is the completest boredom to wander from one to another.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  The new, more conscious houses are alike in their very attempts at diversity: the same bungalows, the same square houses of stucco or tapestry brick.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
13  Long seasoned and weather-stained in the typhoons and calms of all four oceans, her old hull's complexion was darkened like a French grenadier's, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
14  Hence, in whale-ships and merchantmen alike, the mates have their quarters with the captain; and so, too, in most of the American whalers the harpooneers are lodged in the after part of the ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
15  Remark, however, that in different individuals these rates are different; but in any one they are alike.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Though John and Andrew look exactly alike, they act quite differently.
2  The two men were far more alike than they would ever admit.
3  They tried to treat all their children alike.
4  We shall lie all alike in our graves.
5  They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.
6  It's quite common to see couples who dress alike.
7  They carefully designed that the two trunks exactly alike would be switched in the waiting room.
8  The two brothers look very much alike.
9  Old folk and children alike are all against the proposal, not to mention the youth.
10  Every mother breeds not sons alike.
11  Words written alike are often pronounced differently.
12  A famed person and a fattened pig are alike in danger.
13  The two towns are very much alike in size and population.
14  The festive Christmas dinner was a merry one, and old and young alike joined in the general jollity.
15  Friends are generally alike in background and tastes.