bear no resemblance
Example Sentences
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Modern-day cricketers spend so much time in India that the conditions hold no surprises, and warm-ups against local second-string first-class players bear no resemblance to Test cricket.
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2024
Having accepted this haunted version of Poirot, and the fact that it would bear no resemblance to any Christie story I have ever read, I actually quite liked “A Haunting in Venice.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023
The cars rolling out of the vast Moscow Automobile Factory Moskvich in the south of the Russian capital bear no resemblance to the boxy metallic Moskvich models of the Soviet era.
From Reuters • Jul. 20, 2023
Though they bear no resemblance to the sails of old, they function like them: Wind splits into high- and low-pressure systems when it hits the rotors, creating thrust that pulls the ships forward.
From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2021
Just as she let the past go, she was determined not to repeat it: my childhood would bear no resemblance to hers.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
