Sentence examples for seemed less like from inspiring English sources

In the context, these seemed less like loving compliments than like punishments.

These seemed less like missteps than choices, coming from a fondness for more direct flavors.

It seemed less like a home than like a self-contained village.

Stripped of their consuming hunger, they seemed less like barbarians and more like innocents.

At my own children's age, I said, they seemed less like traveling companions than demanding luggage.

"My crime seemed less like a grand larceny, more like parking at an expired meter".

The news seemed less like a diagnosis than like a disturbing enigma.

But these pledges seemed less like boozy lip service than like clearheaded — and prudent — travel plans.

Mr. Weilerstein seemed less like a passionate musician than a musician trying to convince everyone that he was passionate.

Both choices seemed less like new vocations than violations of longstanding nonaggression pacts with the news media.

They seemed less-like isolated mourners than like friends who hadn't seen one another in an age-who had come not as strangers but as a family.