Sentence examples for like splitting from inspiring English sources

In the month leading up to the World Cup, United States Coach Bruce Arena said repeatedly that it would be "like splitting hairs" in deciding which goalkeeper to play.

The received wisdom has it, too, that the Academy doesn't like splitting best picture off from director, but in recent years it's become more common, with Gladiator, Chicago and Crash all winning without their directors behind the wheel.

Splitting an imp, like splitting an atom, can be serious stuff.

It was like splitting in two; I did not know who to worry about more.

Love turning to hate, it's like splitting the atom, such destructiveness comes of it".

Asked whether his former boss was a political asset or liability, Mr. Lhota said: "I hate getting into those types of discussions; it's like splitting the city apart".

And they showcase the many time-honored techniques that writers use to limn their characters' predicaments, from straight-up ventriloquism to the use of unreliable narrators to a "Rashomon -like splitting of peRashomon -like

Our approach rather relies on a skew-symmetric-like splitting of the convective derivatives, that guarantees preservation of kinetic energy in the semi-discrete, low-Mach-number limit.

The tweezers-like splitting of the truncated pyramid side edge that is opposite to the pit becomes less pronounced as the {105} facets of the pyramids become fully developed (see Figure4f,g).

Dyatlov [66, 67] went much further by describing QNM for Kerr de Sitter black holes: for small values of rotations he showed a Zeeman-like splitting of multiplicities predicted in the physics literature, and for perturbations of Kerr de Sitter black holes, he obtained a counting law (see Figs. 22, 24).

"No one likes split doubleheaders, because you've got a lot of time between games," said the Yankees' Derek Jeter.