Sentence examples for like a bid from inspiring English sources

To outsiders, the scarf seemed like a bid for religious freedom.

At first sight, the wheelie stunts in The Grand Tour look like a bid to culturally out-vandalise LeBlanc.

The panelist may indeed be racist, but his declaration of it just plays like a bid for attention.

But the "X&Y" album sounds like a bid for Deep Significance, and it doesn't have the hooks you need when you're playing secular priest.

His motives are unclear: it looks like a bid to position her to run for the governorship next year, though she failed even to come close in 2000.

That choice of materials felt like a bid for legitimization by an artist whose work could err on the side of high-ticket party decorations.

Nevertheless foreigners might think twice about investing when they are not wanted, especially because they would have to deal with Telecom Italia's huge overmanning.Most fund managers would certainly like a counter-bid.

But the rise of Ukip in the polls, so evident at and after Eastleigh, is not the sole reason politicians of all parties are competing in what begins to sound dangerously like a bidding war over immigration.

Dear Seller: I'm writing to let you know that I would like to make a bid on your property.

You find a place that you like, put in a bid that's well above the asking price (just to be safe), and prepare to celebrate, even though the place itself isn't very nice.

That the words "post-traumatic stress disorder" are summoned in the program notes doesn't sound like just a bid for topicality.