Sentence examples for kept like a from inspiring English sources

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Y is an Englishman kept like a dog?

Varosha is an anomaly, kept like a petrified urban museum, enclosed, boarded up and frozen in time.

Beaten, banned from singing nursery rhymes, going to school or making friends, his daughter described herself as a "shadow woman" who was kept like a "caged bird".

When you see him again Georgy is a heavily bearded, mute amnesiac, being kept like a pet by a woman who exploits his cargo (sacks of flour), and his lost mind and automaton's body.

With streaming, a song is not a discrete item to be paid for and kept like a CD or a download — but one part of a vast pool of music that listeners can access with a click.

If only I had decided to hang onto Barbie dolls and vintage lunchboxes that would be valuable collector's items, instead of what I actually kept -- like a six-foot-long chain I made out of gum wrappers in eighth grade.

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The ex-fighter known around here as the Butcher, affectionately, has a signed photograph of Joe Frazier that he keeps like a laminated Mass card in his wallet.

It's more a — trope is a device — I called it topos which is a place where some — they talk about — topos is something that keeps, like a type, keeps repeating and can be used.

If the water source in your yard is something you want to keep, like a natural pond, try adding a filter or running fountain to your pond.

He used the honey and wax and walnut paint as pigment, moving a frame along the strip of linen to figure out which portions he wanted to keep, "like an organic movie," he says.

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