Sentence examples for was roughly akin from inspiring English sources

That practice was roughly akin to taking the rent money to the racetrack.

His announcement was roughly akin to declaring it daytime at 3 A.M. because the sun will rise eventually.

His announcement was roughly akin to declaring it daytime at 3 *A.M. *because the sun will rise eventually.

As acts of betrayal go, this was roughly akin to Johnny Damon's shaving off his beard, forsaking the Red Sox Nation, and joining the Yankees.

Designed to preserve our energy, this speed was roughly akin to a finishing-school exercise of walking with a book balanced atop one's head.

Mr. Kelly said the idea was "roughly akin" to federal tests, like those required for railroad operators after crashes, and he said the police department in Milwaukee had a similar policy.

"It's roughly akin to China and the U.S. It gives rise to many tensions".

It is roughly akin to putting the head mechanic in charge of an entire airline.

That is roughly akin to a German government newspaper (if such a thing existed) promoting Holocaust denial.

This is roughly akin to teaching a young child to identify a class of barking animals with the name DOG.

That is roughly akin, in the Cajun universe, to describing Graceland as the house belonging to Gladys Presley's son.