Sentence examples for akin to it from inspiring English sources

He wrote to io9, "Whenever a robot was wrecked or beheaded by Magnus, its death cry usually consisted of 'Squeee!' or something akin to it (obviously the sound of the robot's voice box feedback upon destruction)." But Katherine Martin, Head of U.S. Dictionaries at Oxford, clarified that "squee" as a word predates the decades-old comic.

In 34 years, Mr. Steinbach said, "nobody can remember anything akin to it".

They tickle, coax and cajole their supposed betters into truth, or something akin to it.

Here's Amos (here's Steig): "A little speck of living thing in the vast living universe, he felt thoroughly akin to it all.

A newspaper-sponsored blog or something akin to it is always going to do better than most of the independent efforts.

It nevertheless excites him oddly, though not to worship, but to a state akin to it but also quite unlike it.

Akin to its predecessors, it sits somewhere between a tablet and a laptop.

Stylistically it's akin to Martin Amis, it's all fizzing adjectives and punchy description.

Belief is akin to conviction; it is, however, distinguished by its object.

His announcement was roughly akin to declaring it daytime at 3 A.M. because the sun will rise eventually.

His announcement was roughly akin to declaring it daytime at 3 *A.M. *because the sun will rise eventually.