Sentence examples for contained something like from inspiring English sources

Many were badly burned, shaking uncontrollably and left caked in a white substance, injuries which the BBC said suggested the bomb contained something like napalm or thermite.

And yet his eyes had an unnerving gleam that contained something like mirth, as though he'd surreptitiously shaken up a can of Pepsi and handed it to me to open.

As far back as 1994, a Japanese phytochemist Yoshinori Asakawa found that a liverwort plant called Radula perrottetii contained something like THC; its molecular structure is similar but not quite exactly the same.

The record within contained something like a nonsense radio drama that moves from Corsica to the Swiss Alps, where "two elderly Scotchmen munch on a rare cheese," to the King's feast, to Jasper and Podgy the Bear huddled around a fire in the middle of a room.

They were gas canisters, containing something like hydrogen or oxygen.

The fact that Nigeria contains something like 250 different ethnic groups creates a minefield of conflicting cultural values and practices.

The present rate of star formation is about one solar mass per year in the entire Galaxy, which contains something like 2 × 109 solar masses of gas.

The electrochemical jelly inside your head contains something like one quadrillion synapses, the junctions at which nerve cells talk to one other by converting electrical signals into chemical ones and then back again.

Meanwhile, if any of the magnets fail, the beams, each of which is supposed to contain something like three hundred trillion protons, could veer off course and, in short order, burn a hole through the collider.

But, he wrote, "I frankly doubt that even if a deal with the Chinese or Russians could be brokered, that in such a crowded volume marketplace as this and one that right across Europe probably contains something like 40 percent production overcapacity, that there can be any future left producing Saab cars in Sweden".

Cambridge University Library has just set up a web site containing something like 20,000 notes and 90,000 images from Charles Darwin's research.