after a fashion
Example Sentences
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The wee powered hardtop mechanism does retract, after a fashion.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
But even if we’re meant to view our woolly antagonists as sheeple, after a fashion, “The Sheep Detectives” culminates on an optimistic note for both the four-legged and the two.
From Salon • May 17, 2026
“When he was excited, he was excited,” said Ford, who told me that he sometimes got a four-page letter on hotel stationery slipped under his door after a fashion show.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2022
It must have worked, after a fashion - Maxwell Snr later named his private yacht the Lady Ghislaine, rather than after Betty or his three older daughters.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2021
Running about the streets every day and all day long he learned to know the city after a fashion, and he saw this and that of its secret parts.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
