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 principle that environments and life forms in the universe may be dissimilar, but that biochemical reactions are universal throughout creation," Dal said slowly.

From Star Surgeon by Nourse, Alan Edward

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

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

Observe, also, if you have several dogs, to let their names be dissimilar in sound.

From The Dog by Dinks