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Akin
"Akin" in a Sentence (20 examples)
Pity is akin to love.
This problem is akin to the one we had last year.
A buffalo is akin to an ox.
Freedom is akin to the rarified air of a mountain top. Weak men cannot bear one or the other.
The greatest good is akin to water.
The singing of the local birds is akin to the sound of a drill.
The threshold of a door is akin to the sill of a window, but it is exactly the same as the sill of a door.
In reality, translation is akin to working for peanuts, since the corresponding meaning of something in one language is often hidden in some deep and impenetrable recesses of the other. As a result, the translator is forced to search all over... Never mind that the picky reader is very difficult to fool.
She felt something akin to holiness; well, she wasn't sure if it was that, but it felt like something stronger than goodness.
A good translator is one who, akin to a worm, can squirm with delight around in the author's brain mass, and leave through the tongue to have its taste impressions confirmed, and then leave well-formed traces on paper line after line, sheet after sheet, until the last page is done — and he once again returns to his former self, and as a member of the smallest and least respected low-salary group, signs up yet again to exert his effort for God's representative on earth, the publishers.
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The faces changed, passing in rotation. Youthful faces, bearded faces, dark faces: faces serene, or faces moody, but all akin with the brotherhood of the sea.
Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?
She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue.
Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
Something akin to a smile shone on his face.
I'll be interested to see how this service does. It will be basic with fares to match, so will be akin to a budget airline taking on a flag-carrier.
After all, that would be akin to a self-coup. Apart from the traditional vision of a coup requiring a military takeover of the government, self-coups occur when governments depart from typical norms of democracy by altering election laws, calling into question election results or seeking to suspend their constitutions in order to stay in power.
Picking up speed with each passing second, the rod would then penetrate the ground and generate an explosion akin to a small nuclear weapon using nothing but gravity for its propulsion.
I like to akin the P-Diddy case to Gen-Z's version of the O.J. Simpson trial.
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