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

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

From The Dog by Dinks

If this supposition is accepted, the primary business of an investigator of nature is to trace likenesses and analogies between what seem on the surface to be dissimilar and unconnected events.

From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison

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

From Cousin Phillis by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

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