Sentence examples for probably akin to from inspiring English sources

It's probably akin to the death of a pet or a distant relative.

"The cold is probably akin to the heat in the south.

Trump's unstated argument here is probably akin to his argument about why black Americans should be pleased with his presidency: low unemployment rates.

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.

This gloomy hour for the right is probably most akin to 1965: Routed at the polls, the bedrock conservatives see their worst dreams of big government becoming a legislative reality.

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.