Sentence examples for kind of akin from inspiring English sources

"It becomes kind of akin to an authorship practice.

"Our lab is kind of akin to an academic biotech startup company," she says.

Not so fiddly 3D Touch — which requires a press that's more than a tap and kind of akin to a push or a little shove.

There are some Native groups that doubt Depp's connection to their culture, which is kind of akin to demanding Barack Obama's birth certificate or forcing Applebee's to disclose their nutrition facts.

I guess getting hit by a super-heavy wobble is kind of akin to getting smacked in the nuts with a pole while trying to land an epic wall-grind.

Many memories have dimmed in the decades that have passed, but I can still see the perpetrator clearly: elderly, toothless, kind of akin to a live action recasting of Evil Edna from the great 1980s BBC cartoon Willo the Wisp.

Johnson's biggest changes involved removing accretions, including greenhouses and a porch enclosure, to bring the house back to basics — a kind of minimalism akin to the minimalism of the Glass House.

Going out to the club became a new kind of ritual, akin to attending mass as a child.

Spindler has denied threatening Wesson, arguing that his drawing was a kind of satire akin to the controversial French publication Charlie Hebdo. .

Literary critic Tom McCarthy concurred that Tintin represented the Belgian state, but also suggested that he acted as a Christian missionary, even being "a kind of god" akin to the character of Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899).

Perhaps it is a kind of voyeurism akin to that time that you wound up spending far too much time on Facebook just looking around to see what someone has, or hasn't, made of himself?