Sentence examples for like a rod from inspiring English sources

Is it like a rod, or is it like a rope, or like a rubber band?

It means that a short dsDNA behaves like a rod rather than a flexible string.

"Playing the guitar is like a rod for my own back.

Her distant grandeur has held the lurid plot together like a rod of ice.

Diamagnetic materials, such as bismuth, when placed in an external magnetic field, partly expel the external field from within themselves and, if shaped like a rod, line up at right angles to a nonuniform magnetic field.

"At times," Brod confessed, "I stood over him like a rod, drove him and forced him again and again by means of new tricks". Kafka rarely thanked his confidant for this bullying, but Brod was not deterred.

"I always liked A-Rod.

"I liked A-Rod, he was a very nice man," Esther Wojcicki told me.

Whether he likes A-Rod or not, it's still not right, and the umpire was brutal".

"I don't care whether you like A-Rod or not," Zimmer said.

(They call the channel "Ajam" — pronounced like A-Rod — for the way it's abbreviated).