Sentence examples for is oddly like from inspiring English sources

There are no schools in Loving County, no regular churches and no grocery stores.In other respects, though, the county is oddly like Norway.

But it is oddly like an Agatha Christie thriller with all the pasteboard characters, 2D backstories and foreign locale, but no murder.

In this, he was oddly like another "famous" literary suicide I have known: Sylvia Plath.

I was thinking more "Rantzen faces Forestry Commission rap", but Esther's buzzing now – in fact, the surgery has been oddly like an episode of That's Life!, only with just me and Esther's campaign aides watching.

There were fleeting moments when they exploited it subtly, but the end effect was oddly like viewing a Halloween parade as the women slipped from one bit into another.

Not only do they show how the political parties want to be seen by the voters, but they also say something important about the state of those parties.The Tory and Labour manifestos published this week are oddly like the parties' respective manifestos in 1987 when Margaret Thatcher, like Mr Blair today, was seeking a third term.

It was oddly like what I'd experienced with TCI's cable TV service, except this time somebody actually picked up the phone, and everything was fixed before lunch.

The whole experience of it is oddly, delightfully, like taking a stroll through the city's treetops.

While these were no doubt prompted by the fear that Nadal's unadorned narrative would be too skimpy, the end result is oddly effective, like a literary portrait in the round.

Telling the history of the period from the 1920s to the end of the new Labour government in 2010 through diary extracts may have seemed a good idea, but the effect of hearing from so many different witnesses running on and off stage is oddly disorienting, like those old Saturday afternoon TV sports programmes where you were switched from snooker to horse racing and back again.

The double up-swipe gesture is oddly satisfying, like picking up a newspaper, then bringing it closer to your face for reading.