"like gates" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is similar to something else, or to introduce the comparison of two things. For example, "Cheesecake is like a custard pie, but with a more crumbly crust - like gates surrounding a castle wall."
The 24-year old is a Harvard drop-out (like Gates) and is building his company with the focus and singular vision of making it the operating system for social applications.
The simplest MEMS switches are like gates.
There were closets that opened like gates and shallow drawers that pulled out evenly, with a sound like exhalation.
On cue, Patrick Ewing and Larry Johnson sealed the Heat's star off like gates at a railroad crossing.
Salauddin, an auto-rickshaw driver who goes by only one name, said that only those who have something to lose would want to raise security apparatus like gates.
"The people moving in like gates on their property, and don't volunteer for anything, not the school board, not the volunteer fire department, not the ambulance service".
or c) neither, because you don't like gated communities and you have no idea how to achieve a fairer society?
Despite the history of abuse between Gates and Mabry, Roseman never liked Gates for the murder.
The valves were designed, Ryan said, to open and close guillotine-like gates inside the cylindrical tunnels, stopping the flow of water.
Drive through the fortress-like gates and enter the main grounds by walking through a massive set of curved limestone arches held together by a keystone.
Walking through the prison-like gates of Locke High School in Watts last week it was hard not to summon up Dante's admonition to those on the threshold of hell: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here".
