Sentence examples for roughly akin from inspiring English sources
"It's roughly akin to China and the U.S. It gives rise to many tensions".
Mindy feels a jolt of attraction roughly akin to having someone seize her intestines and twist.
It is roughly akin to putting the head mechanic in charge of an entire airline.
That practice was roughly akin to taking the rent money to the racetrack.
This is roughly akin to rebuilding a spacecraft as we fly it.
Thus, the pamphlet was unlicensed, a situation roughly akin to a bootleg audiotape or a floppy disk of pirated software.
That is roughly akin to a German government newspaper (if such a thing existed) promoting Holocaust denial.
His announcement was roughly akin to declaring it daytime at 3 A.M. because the sun will rise eventually.
The director sat by the trays of crackers and crudités that materialize before his every meeting and asked his animators to screen a "pre-visualization" — roughly animated footage akin to moving storyboards — of the film's most expensive and elaborate set piece, one that would surely anchor Fox's trailers and television ads: the Ted-Walter fight.
As part of an effort to define her opponent, Ms. McCaskill's campaign spent roughly $2 million on ads that called Mr. Akin the "true conservative" in the race.
"GZB" itself is an abbreviation of a transliterated Korean word, gizibe, which roughly translates to a non-profane word akin to bitch and repeated in her 2013 track, "The Baddest Female".
