be dissimilar
Example Sentences
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I suggest to Arthur that his behaviour may not be dissimilar to that of an online troll.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2023
If this supposition is accepted, the primary business of an investigator of nature is to trace likenesses and analogies between what seem on the surface to be dissimilar and unconnected events.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison
The pleasure arising from bulls, proceeds from our surprise at suddenly discovering two things to be dissimilar in which a resemblance might have been suspected.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
But sister shall be no motive with me to make me desirous of seeing persons united whose sentiments and souls may be dissimilar.
From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas
He drove along all night: Lydia never closed an eye; in the moonshine she was constantly detecting similarities, which as constantly turned out to be dissimilar.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
