"akin to returning" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English
It means similar or comparable to coming back or going back. You can use it to describe a situation or experience that has similarities to returning. Example: The feeling of nostalgia I had while walking through the streets of my old hometown was akin to returning to a familiar place after being away for a long time.
Their memories, akin to those of returning astronauts who studied Earth from outer space, are worth hearing.
To Richard Stanley of Staten Island, who introduced Little League baseball to Uganda nine years ago, this latest chapter is akin to Lazarus's returning from the dead.
His new EP Claustrophilia is akin to his first love, returning to four-to-the-floor beats and the purest elements of acid house.
This is not a homecoming akin to Gallinari's return to Milan.
But European readers will be much more familiar with the term "baby hatch," a mechanism akin to a book return, only with much less security and scrutiny. .
Warren Hoge (NYT) TURKEY: ACTIVIST BACK IN JAIL -- The country's most prominent human rights figure, Akin Birdal, returned to jail to serve the final six months of his sentence for "inciting hatred" by advocating a negotiated end to the war against Kurdish rebels.
The Akin campaign has said it believed the party would have to return to its corner because of the importance of the race.
Alan Levine, one of the civil rights lawyers representing the protesters, said that not allowing the protesters to return with their sleeping bags and tents was akin to stifling their message.
Mr. Akin, who on Friday reiterated his intent to stay in the race, held no public appearances over the weekend but planned to return to the campaign trail this week, his campaign said.
The samples displayed wide TRM unblocking spectra and hysteresis behavior that are more akin to MD behavior, however, they returned paleointensity Arai plots that were relatively linear, albeit over the lower temperature range.
