be dissimilar
Example Sentences
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I suggest to Arthur that his behaviour may not be dissimilar to that of an online troll.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2023
The pleasure arising from bulls, proceeds from our surprise at suddenly discovering two things to be dissimilar in which a resemblance might have been suspected.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
He drove along all night: Lydia never closed an eye; in the moonshine she was constantly detecting similarities, which as constantly turned out to be dissimilar.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
The people of this country cannot properly be compared with the inhabitants of England; their institutions are different, and their habits and manners must necessarily be dissimilar.
From A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by Ferrall, S. A. (Simon Ansley)
The disease proved to be dissimilar to any ordinary complaint, and fell upon the head, which it caused to wither.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Foster, Herbert Baldwin
