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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a creature like a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing or describing a creature by likening it to another creature or object.
Example: "In the dark forest, I stumbled upon a creature like a wolf, but with shimmering scales instead of fur."
Alternatives: "a being similar to a" or "a creature resembling a".
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The balance may be upset by a creature like a mountain goat or a caterpillar doing what comes naturally, or a flood that sweeps away everything in its path.
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The miracle to the Blundens was that India was not a country but a creature, like an elephantine body bristling with insect life, pestilential with people.
Each time the knight encounters a creature, like an orc or a skeleton, the map is replaced by an 8-by-8 grid filled with colorful icons.
Ultimately, the point of these scenes is not to shock us but to ask what fundamentally makes us human, what differences inhere between a creature like Lydia and a creature like Bruno that disqualify the latter from the full range of human affection.
To harbour a creature like that!
A creature like ourselves, yet he flies.
It is my dream to be a powerful, sexy witch that transforms into a disgusting hag of a creature like she does here, so I can frighten my own children someday.
Then comes Mr. Bieber, a cuddly creature like them, an animal with a natural gift that, when captured on camera, induces shrieks and squeals.
I felt like an animal, like a creature the Irish state didn't recognize as human".
I felt like an animal, like a creature the Irish state didn't recognise as human".
They're a symbiotic creature, like a Portuguese Man of War.
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