get a likeness
Example Sentences
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"I try to get a likeness," he told the Telegraph.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
"When you get a likeness, people do often cry because that person isn't around anymore."
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2022
"I've been wondering how you managed to get a likeness of her on the back of an envelope," said Leslie sarcastically.
From The Hollow of Her Hand by George Barr McCutcheon
No, not the whole of you, of course, though I'm not clever enough to get a likeness even if I wished.
From The Romance of a Christmas Card by Alice Ercle Hunt
I have told you how you may, and how people who are married do, get a likeness of countenance; and in that I have done it.
From A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. by Eugene Arthur Hecker
