Sentence examples for like a historic from inspiring English sources

It certainly did not look like a historic encounter.

It looked less like a historic first than a rerun, an archival clip.

It does not seem like a historic building, which is precisely why it is one.

Mr. Winkler said, "It's not like a historic movie musical, where people stop and sing to each other".

They might get away with it, but there's also a serious chance that this will end up looking like a historic mistake.

"I looked around and it was like a museum, all those plants like a historic exhibit, but it's actually still very current," she said.

AT FIRST sight it looked like an historic breakthrough for free trade in aviation.

On the surface this language – and the proposal to cut the army's active force to between 440,000 to 450,000 troops – made the announcement of the Pentagon's five-year budget blueprint seem like an historic event.

The broken wood chairs became a decorative theme, so to speak: hung from a wall; displayed in an alcove like an historic three-legged throne; beside Ireland's bed, the chair's missing back replaced with a bound San Francisco Chronicle circa 1976.

"At this point, I would like to reclaim a historic building," he said.

Nothing like honoring a historic baseball feat by firing the first shot of the free-agent season across the Giants' bow.