look like

idiom

: to have an appearance that is very similar to (someone or something) : to resemble (someone or something)

You look just like your mother!

That powdered sugar looks like snow.

Examples of look like in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Yet the images make the film look like a movie with twice that budget. —

James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024 The three lines are meant to look like waves and celebrate the city on the water. —

Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2024 Yeah, so what do cleanup efforts look like now weeks after the collapse? —

Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024 The brand’s calling card is basics with a twist: silver rings with chain-like forms, chains that look like nothing else on the market, forms studded with semi-precious stones like lapis lazuli and turquoise. —

Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 4 Apr. 2024 Over the course of the band’s End of the Road World Tour, the two sides met in Milan and Stockholm, thinking about what a hologram show could look like. —

Robert Levine, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2024 Many of us became more sedentary during the pandemic, and walking pads look like an easy way to get back on our feet. —

Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024 So the intimacy of a video of the future queen wearing jeans and a sweater, sitting on a garden bench talking about her own illness, may look like the natural thing to do to our 21st-century selves. —

Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024 The photos look like a routine encounter between a senior Chinese diplomat and immigrants in the American heartland: dutiful smiles, casual clothes, a teapot on a table, Chinese and U.S. flags on the wall. —

Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 22 Mar. 2024

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