Sentence examples for like a dictionary from inspiring English sources

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

"He was like a dictionary of classic rock," Bob Shipley said of his son.

"Bucke-basket," they point out, is a peculiar phrase, odd to have isolated in a scholarly work like a dictionary.

A good novel is like a dictionary and a thesaurus, cleverly adapted to be compelling as well as instructive.

With little in the way of flowery prose or colorful exposition, much of the Baedeker reads more like a dictionary than a Lonely Planet guide.

Handy, sure, like a dictionary or a cheap app, but probably about as much use as either in a dust-up against a death lizard from the pain dimension.

If you would like to remove a dictionary you can do so by going to Tools > Addons.

Like words in a dictionary, a chemical-structure database can serve as a training set of molecules that can be used to identify the most common chemical substructures present in all known chemical compounds.

Jim Garaventi, founding partner and creative director at Mechanica, said: "A book like this, a dictionary, an American Heritage dictionary, is a different type of book.

This exhibition is not meant to be a final resolution of the question, "What is craft?" "Rather, it's like opening a dictionary and finding so many more meanings than you ever dreamed existed for the word craft," he said.

It is like compiling a dictionary between one language and another that you cannot actually read.