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How to use similarity in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Similarity means closeness of appearance to something else. Example: “The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.”

More sentences with similarity

  • The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.From the entry inheritance
  • The two species have some anatomical similarities.From the entry anatomical
  • Examples of affine transformations include translation, scaling, homothety, similarity, reflection, rotation, shear and compositions of them in any combination and sequence.From the entry affine transformation
  • The definition of algebraic structure establishes a framework through which to compare otherwise very different abstract objects, and to study similarities and patterns made apparent by the definition.From the entry algebraic structure
  • Paulis suggests that this similarity may be due to chance or folk etymology, which is plausible.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 66. From the entry emmenagogue
  • The ability of some humans to consciously piloerect suggests even more similarity between humans and non-human animals.2022 September, Jonathon McPhetres, Janis H. Zickfeld, “The physiological study of emotional piloerection: A systematic review and guide…. From the entry piloerect
  • Hanks has often been called our generation's answer to James Stewart, and the similarities are certainly there.2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC. From the entry apple pie
  • The same procedure was used to calculate the intermonth diet similarity described below.2016 February 6, “Feeding Strategies of Brown Howler Monkeys in Response to Variations in Food Availability”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry intermonth
  • We measure the similarity between entire subreddits both in terms of user similarity and topical similarity.2015, Jack Hessel, Alexandra Schofield, Lillian Lee, David Mimno, “What do Democrats do in their Spare Time? Latent Interest Detection in…. From the entry subreddit
  • It would be foolish to overthink the similarities between Edward St.2012 March 14, Sarah Lyall, “After 5 Books, a Measure of Peace”, in The New York Times. From the entry hyperfluent
  • As can be seen, there are similarities and differences between sustainable design and Feng Shui concepts.2011, Michael Y. Mak, Albert T. So, “Case Studies: Sustainable Design and Feng Shui”, in Scientific Feng Shui for the Built Environment…. From the entry feng shui
  • Each ruin pub is unique, but they all share certain similarities.2011 August 15, Mark Baker, “The 'ruin pubs' of Budapest's seventh district”, in BBC. From the entry ruin pub
  • Despite their similarities, the histories of blackcurrants and redcurrants in Britain are surprisingly distinct.2009, Christopher Stocks, Forgotten Fruits: The stories behind Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables, page 93. From the entry red currant
  • Indeed, Lucha Libre does share some similarities with America’s World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).2009, Laura Barberena, “Lucha Libre”, in Barry Brummett, editor, Sporting Rhetoric: Performance, Games, and Politics, page 157. From the entry lucha libre
  • Oh, there were, and are, similarities: the double identity, the cape and tights, the devotion to crime-fighting.2008 February 9, Dennis O'Neil, Leah Wilson, Batman Unauthorized: Vigilantes, Jokers, and Heroes in Gotham City, BenBella Books, →ISBN…. From the entry strike twice
  • Conceit as discors concordia involves the comparison of unlike things, the finding of similarity in dissimilarity.2006, Vernon Hyde Minor, The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry concetto
  • It isn't bad when we come back; we notice little similarities to our dreaming places.2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 242. From the entry cabbage palm
  • This is something they have in common with mondegreens, but the similarity ends there.2005 November 5, Chris Waigl, “The Eggcornin' Bob Dylan”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet). From the entry eggcorn
  • The Pauline character is further enhanced by the numerous verbal similarities with passages in the genuine Paulines.1999, Alvar Ellegård, “Ephesians”, in Jesus – One Hundred Years Before Christ: A Study in Creative Mythology, London: Century, →ISBN, part…. From the entry Pauline
  • I also found similarities between kurdish and Polish, Rusian, French and even english.1999 April 16, ala...@my-dejanews.com, “Questions about Kemal Atatürk?”, in soc.culture.kurdish (Usenet), retrieved 28 Apr 2022. From the entry languist
  • The similarities of this passage with that of the epitome from Dionysius cannot be overlooked.1997, Martin John Gammon, Kant and the Decline of Classical Mimesis - Volume 1, page 193. From the entry zelotic
  • You put meat in it, but that's the only similarity between our meat keeper and everyone else's.1967, Life (volume 62, number 12, page 5). From the entry meat keeper
  • There is a remarkable similarity in the appearance of all apothekes in all of Europe.1907, The Pharmaceutical Era, volume 37, page 131, column 1. From the entry apotheke
  • By leveraging cosine for self-attention, more eased values can be obtained, offering a more accurate measurement of similarity between vectors.2023, Image and Graphics, page 314. From the entry eased
  • The two activities (bushcraft and camping) have remarkable similarities because they are both outdoor activities that occur in distant territories.2021, Zach Parham, Bushcraft Survival Guide […] , page 9. From the entry bushcraft
  • Skeletal similarities are only part of the story Dr.2014, Neil Genzlinger, ‘Your Inner Fish’ Traces Human Evolutionary History on PBS. From the entry eggy
  • Hyland's study demonstrates how n-grams can reveal similarities and differences both between genres and between different sets of writers.2012, Winnie Cheng, Exploring Corpus Linguistics: Language in Action, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry n-gram
  • There are probably similarities between morphology and development with the Sagrinae, but the nymphosis here occurs within the soil.2012, P. Jolivet, Biology of Chrysomelidae, page 6. From the entry nymphosis
  • But despite the overt similarity of the rules, Rome II does not evince a broad, transatlantic consensus on conflict of laws.2010, Clay H. Kaminsky, “The Rome II Regulation: A Comparative Perspective on Federalizing Choice of Law”, in Tulane Law Review, volume…. From the entry evince
  • Even the style bears similarity, and, as Shin explains, both appealed to the 'same bloodedness' of the Korean people.2010, Petre Pan, The How Not To Blog: The Economic Testing Ground. From the entry same-bloodedness
  • Swamp white oak is commonly mistaken for bur oak because of similarities in their habitat and mature bark.2010, Sally S. Weeks; Harmon P. Weeks, Jr.; George R. Parker, Native Trees of the Midwest, 2nd edition, page 182. From the entry swamp white oak
  • Detecting remote homolog by protein similarity network.2008, Chan-seok Jeong, Minho Lee, Dongsup Kim, edited by Ratko Magjarevic, World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering…. From the entry homolog
  • New Labour leader Tony Blair was described as an advocate of ‘Blajorism’ in recognition of Labour's policy similarities with Major's Conservatives.2002, Peter Lynch, SNP: The History of the Scottish National Party, page 216. From the entry Blajorism
  • Epitopes (on self and nonself antigens) can cross-stimulate T cells at increasing potency as their similarity with nonself augments.2000, G Ristori et al., “Compositional bias and mimicry toward the nonself proteome in immunodominant T cell epitopes of self and nonself…. From the entry self
  • You can see many similarities between English and German.1999 April 16, ala...@my-dejanews.com, “Questions about Kemal Atatürk?”, in soc.culture.kurdish (Usenet), retrieved 28 Apr 2022. From the entry languist
  • Here and throughout, variation infuses the music, Chopin’s innovative, elastic figuration masking the underlying similarity of bars 23 and 25.1997, John Rink, Chopin: The Piano Concertos, page 75. From the entry figuration
  • The similarity between Ham's and Lot's story is unmistakable, particularly as it has to do with lineage and misengendering.1996, David Rosenberg, Genesis as it is Written, page 89. From the entry misengender
  • More specific indications of the similarity between muci and SMs were given by the adsorption tests (Fig. 2).1995, Frédéric Marin, Mark Smith, Yeishin Isa, Gerard Muyzer, Peter Westbroek, “Skeletal matrices, muci, and the origin of invertebrate…. From the entry muci
  • Of course, the Bs and the Ss here could be properties, as in Armstrong's own illustration (similarities supervening on shared properties).1995, John Bacon, “Weak Supervenience Supervenes”, in Elias E. Savellos, Ümit D. Yalçın, editors, Supervenience: New Essays, Cambridge…. From the entry Armstrongian
  • There is a similarity between the dynamics of the streets of New York and the dynamics of a Latin American plaza.1990 September 1, Norma Romano-Benner, “Shaping the ’90s”, in Americas. From the entry unashamed

Meaning of similarity

  1. noun Closeness of appearance to something else.
  2. noun The relation of sharing properties.
  3. noun A transformation (of a Euclidean space) that preserves angles and the ratios of distances.

Full definition of similarity

Questions about similarity in a sentence

How do you use similarity in a sentence?
Similarity is used as a noun. For example: “The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.”
What is a short sentence with similarity?
“Detecting remote homolog by protein similarity network.”
What does similarity mean?
Similarity means closeness of appearance to something else.

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