Sentence examples for was somewhat akin from inspiring English sources

The effect was somewhat akin to lace.

Mr. Beale said rallying donors for the contest was somewhat akin to rallying voters for an election.

The court's ruling unleashed a kind of free agency for European Union players that had been unknown previously under a system that was somewhat akin to baseball's reserve clause.

She knows we're not sexist, not "really like that" and thus to her it was somewhat akin to someone's dad showing up at a rave and trying to buy drugs off their friends.

The experiment was somewhat akin to taking the volunteers back in time and across the continent and having them breathe Utah air for four or five days, Dr. Devlin said.

The state of affairs was somewhat akin to that on the Titanic, where the first-class passengers comfortably eased their way onto lifeboats while the common folk in steerage got soaked.

A scanner is somewhat akin to a photocopier.

This is somewhat akin to stuffing most of the M.R.O.

Snowboarding, winter sport that is somewhat akin to skiing and that evolved from skateboarding and surfing.

It's somewhat akin to other biofilms, like dental plaque, the Park Service said.

It's somewhat akin to a Major League World Series without the Yankees or the Mets.