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

The people of this country cannot properly be compared with the inhabitants of England; their institutions are different, and their habits and manners must necessarily be dissimilar.

From A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by Ferrall, S. A. (Simon Ansley)

Names of Dogs not to end in "O;" to be easily called; to be dissimilar.

From The Dog by Dinks

The disease proved to be dissimilar to any ordinary complaint, and fell upon the head, which it caused to wither.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Foster, Herbert Baldwin

I think it was because she had begun to fancy all our tastes must be dissimilar.

From Cousin Phillis by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn