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

If this supposition is accepted, the primary business of an investigator of nature is to trace likenesses and analogies between what seem on the surface to be dissimilar and unconnected events.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison

Observe, also, if you have several dogs, to let their names be dissimilar in sound.

From The Dog by Dinks

I think it was because she had begun to fancy all our tastes must be dissimilar.

From Cousin Phillis by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Names of Dogs not to end in "O;" to be easily called; to be dissimilar.

From The Dog by Dinks