Sentence examples for was originally like from inspiring English sources

It was "originally, like, seven minutes long until Rick Rubin came in and cut it in half," he jokes.

"I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

In a 1978 interview with NME she even aligned herself with that era's punks and rock musicians:"I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

So we're missing a lot of that public architecture at Herculaneum, which gives us less of a sense of what the city was originally like, at least in its public face, although there's no doubt that that material still lies beneath the ground.

In contrast to the Hesiodic view that the human past included a golden age from which the present day is a decline, an alternative tradition that may derive from Democritus suggests that human life was originally like that of animals; it describes the gradual development of human communities for purposes of mutual aid, the origin of language, crafts and agriculture.

Pinball is a beautiful game that was originally like pachinko, in that it was used for gambling as well as recreational purposes.

He also revealed that while the estimated cost for the project was originally £108m, "like-for-like" figures show that this figure is now likely to be £115m.

Science, he points out, was "originally empirical, like Leonardo making wonderful drawings of nature".

SCENERY Amman was originally built, like Rome, on seven hills, but now sprawls over 19.

The early language FORTRAN (Formula Translator) was originally much like assembly language; however, it allowed programmers to write algebraic expressions instead of coded instructions for arithmetic operations.

But Mexico's war has no ideological pretensions or window-dressing – its only cover is that it was originally fought, like other, lesser, mafia wars, over now diversified product lines that get America and Europee) high.