dissimilar

Example Sentences

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Yet again, however, the dissimilar qualities start to feel like echoes.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

Back in August 2023, there was a poster - not dissimilar to the School Wars one - that circulated on TikTok and Snapchat about disorder and looting on Oxford Street.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

The chapel’s four dissimilar facades—essentially interconnected white surfaces, ornamented and perforated with markedly different patterns of windows and doorways—are topped with a gray, curvaceous concrete roof.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Ellis, meanwhile, has a nearly 14-year-old son who is in what she calls a “teenage, hormonal place” — not that dissimilar to Emily, who has three slacker teenagers obsessed with video games.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston