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alike English

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alike

If some things are alike, they are almost the same in some way. My mother and I are very much alike.

alike

If some things act alike, they act in almost the same way. All the men in the office dress alike. You use alike to show that what you say is true of both groups or individuals. Teachers and students alike have to work harder to improve this school.

alike

equally parents and teachers alike demanded reforms (= similar) having the same or similar characteristics all politicians are alike they looked utterly alike friends are generally alike in background and taste in a like manner they walk alike

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Simple sentences

I hate women who say all men are alike.
Paul has three sons. They look very much alike.
They are all alike.
The approaches used in those two designs are exactly alike.
They are so much alike that I don't know which is which.
Those proposals seem very much alike to me.
Those plans seem much alike to me.
The father and his son were very alike.
The two brothers are very much alike.
The twins are very much alike.
The twins look so much alike it's next to impossible to distinguish one from the other.
The twins look exactly alike.
The twins were so alike that it was difficult to tell them apart.
The twins are as alike as two peas in a pod.
Much as we resemble one another, none of us are exactly alike.
The twins are so much alike that I can not distinguish one from the other.
The twin sisters are alike as two peas in a pod.
The sisters are quite alike.
The three sisters look very much alike.
The twin girls are so much alike that I can't tell one from the other.
All those flowers look alike.

Movie subtitles

All the good and evil deeds alike that humans draw while above ground will. never disappear throughout their lives. What you are doing now to the soil to try and make it disappear right away.
See? Great minds think alike, huh?
Yeah. - Honest, these cards all look alike.
Me and the kaiser felt just alike about this war.
We're all alike out here.
Yeah, you dames are all alike.
You know, Rainsford, we two are just alike.
People and animals alike sleep on the leaves.
We've always shared and shared alike, haven't we?
No two men do it alike.
I place a nomination, one whose integrity is conceded by friend and foe alike.
Whoever killed him was counting on one thing. that skeletons all look alike.
You guys are all alike.
Susan, do they build all the houses in Riverdale alike?
And he thinks I look alike.
You're so alike.
England's only an island, and all islands are alike.
All islands are alike.
Share and share alike, lads.
I don't understand, the signatures look exactly alike to me.
They look alike in the distance, Sir.
You sailors are all alike.
It's all so alike!
And I pray that under my rule Normans and Saxons alike will share the rights of Englishmen.
They both sound exactly alike to me.
All the good and evil deeds alike that humans draw while above ground will. never disappear throughout their lives.
Honest, these cards all look alike.
But you're all alike.cheap sports!
Remember, share. It's share and share alike.
I shall not speak of his kindness to man and beast alike. Nor of his diligence in performing his appointed duties about the home.

News and current affairs

Is it not time for indigenous development, of countries and leaders alike?
For his admirers and critics alike, Meles leaves behind a potent political legacy.
The specter of a nuclear Iran haunts Arabs and Israelis alike, but it is the United States and Israel that are the driving force behind efforts to curtail Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Argentine bonds (like most others) had a so-called pari passu clause that committed the government to treat all bondholders alike.
Of course, there is nothing new in this: Italy's political dynamics have always baffled participants and observers alike.
The reason behind that uninspiring consensus is simple: people - economists and investors alike - have become so pessimistic about Russia that they no longer can see positive facts.
As long as women are perceived to be the weaker sex, men and women alike will project their own feelings of vulnerability onto the female candidate.
This is inconvenient for climate mandarins in the UK and Copenhagen alike, because it reduces clean energy's allure.
As a result, political parties and social organizations alike attacked reform efforts.
Fairness and reasonableness are also distant goals, because there is vast disorder among Chinese law-making institutions, central and local alike.
Such reforms should appeal to rich and poor countries alike, as they would reduce spending on energy and dependence on oil imports.
Indeed, throughout the world, the economic downturn of 2008-2009 increased the burden of private and public debt alike - to the point that the public-private distinction became blurred.
As a public-policy credo, corporatism has come to mean that the government must support all members of society, whether individuals or organizations, giving support to failing businesses and protecting existing jobs alike.
The same logic applies in the guidelines for President George W. Bush's military tribunals, which treat those who attack military personnel and civilians alike.
If real estate prices were to fall dramatically, a chain reaction could occur, taking down big and small investors alike, and over time causing wide suffering to ordinary Africans.
Republicans and Democrats alike argue that this is the crux of America's jobs problem. After all, trade deficits mean job losses.
It is important for policymakers and the public alike to understand the real fiscal outlook and the damage that high deficits will cause if prompt action is not taken.
After all, another Middle East conflict would poison and distort relations in the region for decades, which would be the worst of all possible consequences - for the US and China alike.
Though US tactics were debated and shifted from administration to administration, the overarching approach remained consistent, because it was broadly supported by Republicans and Democrats alike.
Indeed, in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, government and parliament alike were unpopular.
Few legislators - Democrats and Republicans alike - care to take on the National Rifle Association.
Hence the question on the minds of politicians and economists alike: Is the productivity slowdown a permanent condition and constraint on growth, or is it a transitional phenomenon?
Today, the world seems to be entering a period when, if not a hundred, at least a dozen varieties of Weltpolitik are being pursued by great and emerging powers alike.
In order to reduce the risks associated with investing in Afghanistan, the government must create a system that benefits local communities and foreign investors alike.
But, from the moment that the Pope arrived in Scotland, he was overwhelmed by enthusiastic crowds of well-wishers, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.
That assessment is stunning, yet few American leaders - Democrats and Republicans alike - appear to be wondering if military power is the best answer to security issues.
Yet when the Wall tumbled down, experts and world leaders alike were unanimous.
Chronic diseases are the main - and growing - cause of death in developed and developing countries alike. And more than two billion people still lack access to essential medicines.

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