Sentence examples for probably akin from inspiring English sources
It's probably akin to the death of a pet or a distant relative.
It's an unbelievably heady feeling giving birth, probably akin to winning a marathon (but how many of us ever win a marathon?).
Going 10-6 is probably akin to throwing off the yoke of Roman oppression, so you can forgive the Lions' over-exuberance, even if you cannot picture Matt Millen as Commodus.
The adaptation is probably akin to desensitization, a process used sometimes to cure patients suffering from asthma by giving them repeated injections of small doses of the pollen to which they are sensitive.
Alicia Ratteree, The Goat Parade: I think the mood around Chivas USA this week is of two minds, probably akin to that of the fanbase's split opinions about the ongoing racism and discrimination charges at the club.
It is probably akin to the Sanskrit urja, "sap, strength," according to Merriam-Webster, which defines the noun as "an explosive discharge of neuromuscular tensions at the height of sexual arousal that is usually accompanied by the ejaculation of semen in the male and by vaginal contractions in the female".
I know you want to win and that in your mind, supporting Apple with Zune is probably something akin to feeding the enemy, but did it ever occur to you that perhaps, just maybe, part of the iPod's success stems from the fact that ANYONE CAN USE IT?! Stop alienating potential customers and make your crap work on OS X so I don't have to listen to Brand New one more time.
Probably something akin to the delightfully dark short film above from Korean-based creative studio, Sticky Monster Lab.
"In the next few years," Rutherford asserts, "for only the second time in four billion years, a living thing, probably something akin to a cell, will be born in the laboratory without coming from an existing cell".
It's doubtful there are any "good revolutionaries" in the three separate violent match-ups in Mali -- it's probably more akin to trying to gain control over an Animal Farm type situation.
The archetypal SMC complex, like those found today in prokaryotes, probably acted akin to modern day eukaryotic condensins.
