Sentence examples for like referring from inspiring English sources

Jack is also given to murmuring politically incorrect no-no's like referring to a female assistant as "my girl".

Interesting sidenote: the startup has a mirrored domain at CollegeRoomCreator.com for its university partnerships, because schools apparently don't like referring to their housing facilities as "dorms".

Nicole James of MTV Buzzyworthy simply said "rock videos + themes = the only kind of math I like" referring to the music video for "What You Want".

I know you don't like referring to the N-word, but this is what that old man said, 90-year-old guy.

Psychologists call them Core Self-Evaluations (CSE), but I like referring to them as the Fab Four Foundations of Change: that would be Paul (Self-Efficacy), John (Locus of Control), Ringo (Emotional Regulation), and George (Self-Esteem).

"Wiki-PR using the term 'PR' is kind of like referring to lancing boils as 'surgery'," said one industry expert in a discussion on Facebook, "in that one would not claim to be a surgeon based on that skill".

Salmon claims that 'Pegasus' and the like refer to existent things — to abstract entities, man-made artifacts.[21] On such a view, (29) is actually false.

Mr. Ackman described the company as "Buffett-like," referring to Warren E. Buffett, according to CNBC, which earlier reported the investment.

The questionnaire included: i) a set of quality-attribute scenarios to be evaluated with an ATAM-like design review ([Bass et al. 2012]), and ii) a set of role-specific questions (also ATAM-like) referring to the quality of the architectural descriptions ([Nord et al. 2009]).

militaris martial, war-like, referring to the ability of the organism to degrade perchlorate, frequently used in rocket propellants].

The concept farm-like refers to a fish rearing condition as close as possible to a farming operation in terms of density, loading, and daily management.