Sentence examples for as a akin from inspiring English sources

Rollins developed an interest in punk rock after he and his friend Ian MacKaye procured a copy of The Ramones's eponymous debut album; he later described it as a "akin to shooting heroin".

In the People's Liberation Army in the early 1970s he worked as a reporter (akin to a press officer in a government agency).

No team had ever gone into postseason play as bedraggled, as woebegone, as akin to a car puttering along with four flat tires, as the 2000 Yankees, losers of 15 of their last 18 games at regular season's end.

The Reform movement's 1885 platform dismissed a "return to Palestine" as a relic akin to animal sacrifice.

The sequencing of the human genome is often described as a triumph akin to landing on the moon.

For his part, Hausfeld has embraced this litigation as a cause akin to a lawsuit he once filed against Texaco for discriminating against minority employees.

He praised him as a "dissident" akin to Czechoslovak rebels like Vaclav Havel who had languished in prison during the communist era.

This visually striking dungeon crawler embraces voxels as a style akin to pixel art.

Sir Bernard said without an increase in standards people would regard police training as a process akin to a "sheep dip".

Only then can cloud computing deliver on the dream of computing power as a utility akin to power, water and gas.

Such global loss of animal species, or defaunation, is increasingly recognized as a problem akin to deforestation in terms of scale and impact.