Sentence examples for exactly more like from inspiring English sources

Not like free spirits, exactly, more like refugees from the zombie apocalypse, but, still, they'd be together.

He focuses not on the pathetic Rusalka, here a streetwalker with a heart of — not gold, exactly, more like sequins — but rather on the Water Gnome, commandingly sung and acted by the bass Willard White.

They were not pages crumpled on the floor, exactly — more like pages to be stacked up and put aside, where, like some gourmet dish, its elements might have time to blend.

Even in those days, when he was fresh and boyish, the drugs left some kind of mark on him — not damage, exactly, more like a patina that darkened his skin to old gold, refining its texture so that minute wrinkles appeared at the corners of his lids when he frowned.

Waked: Not exactly, more like throw a bomb at them, let them discuss the effects.

Well, not exactly religion — more like a cult.

Not heroic, exactly, but more like a sort of firework display.

But not exactly nighttime — more like an eclipse, a total solar.

They weren't meows exactly, but more like the grunts of a goddamn crazy person only instead of being a person it was a cat.

It's not a pain exactly, it's more like a longing.

And it isn't theater, exactly; it's more like a long joke, lovingly told.