Sentence examples for got like a from inspiring English sources

I'm pretty sure "like" is generally associated with 80s teenage valley girls, however, its first filler usage appeared publicly in a September 15 , 1928New Yorker issue cartoon (if you're a subscriber, you can see it), in which two people are discussing a man's work place: One person says, "What's he got an awfice?" and the other replies, "No, he's got like a loft".

I never got, like, a thirty-million-dollar check.

"Haven't you got like a dictionary up on your iPhone?" Mr. Carney said.

If you've got like a minute on the clock, that's a lot of time.

He's got like a million cookbooks at home; he's always reading, always learning.

She's got like a makeshift hand at the top of her legs called a foufou.

"That weird musical obsession that you get, like a teenager".

We would get like a fifth of whisky, 10 bucks.

The longer he stares back, the wider the gaze seems to get, like a grin.

"I didn't get, like, a G.O.P. transplant," she told me.

"It's pretty obvious we have to get, like, a zillion times better," Ryan said.