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How to use similarly in a sentence

40 example sentences · adverb

Similarly means in a like style or manner. Example: “The sisters dressed similarly.”

Examples of similarly by meaning

adverbIn a like style or manner.

  • The sisters dressed similarly.
  • Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55

More sentences with similarly

  • The supersize model displayed the latest summer shorts fashion, tactfully representing similarly overweight teenagers.From the entry model
  • Similarly, there is a category whose objects are groups and whose arrows are the homomorphisms from one group to another.From the entry object
  • Chlortalidone is a thiazidelike diuretic: it acts similarly to the thiazides but does not contain the benzothiadiazine molecular structure.From the entry thiazidelike
  • The picture in parts of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland is similarly dismal.2026 June, “Fly-tipping is destroying our countryside – here’s how to stop this disgraceful trend”, in BBC Countryfile Magazine. From the entry fly-tipper
  • Meta employees have similarly engaged in so-called “tokenmaxxing” to improve their standing on internal leader boards.2026 May 12, Rafe Rosner-Uddin, “Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing” due to pressure to use AI tools”, in Ars Technica, sourced from…. From the entry tokenmaxx
  • Our observations provide evidence that CO2 appears to behave similarly at Hunga.2024 August, Sharon L. Walker, Cornel E. J. de Ronde, “Ongoing Activity at Hunga Submarine Volcano, Tonga: The Case for Better Monitoring…. From the entry syneruptively
  • Lower-cost B.B.L.s have created a market for similarly priced postoperative care.2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine. From the entry spalike
  • Similarly, all other two-character atomic representations in SMILES are being mistokenized.2022, Toni Sivula, Deep Neural Networks in Drug-Target Activity Prediction and Machine Learning Assisted Docking of Ultra-Large Compound…. From the entry mistokenize
  • Klavdiia Berezka, 73, and her husband, Ivan Korteliuk, were similarly at a loss.2022 September 26, Nicole Tung, Evelina Riabenko, “Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Blinken Dismisses Russian Referendum as ‘Sham’”, in The…. From the entry Klavdiia
  • Similarly, Bruyère, another well-esteemed Paris couturiere, resettled in New York for the war.2021, Véronique Pouillard, Paris to New York: The Transatlantic Fashion Industry in the Twentieth Century, Harvard University Press, page…. From the entry couturiere
  • Similarly, early twentieth-century US-American New Humanism—led by Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More—berates American culture and education.2021, Anthony B. Pinn, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Humanism, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 303. From the entry New Humanism
  • Similarly discredited is the 'edumyth' that the brain's structure is defined by infancy or by adolescence.2021 June 21, Lynne Hunt, Denise Chalmers, University Teaching in Focus: A Learning-centred Approach, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry edumyth
  • Similarly, at Cambridge, I observe what I had seen elsewhere - the dearth of tourists.2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in RAIL, page 50. From the entry dearth
  • Similarly, plants and mycorrhizal fungi are no longer thought of as behaving either mutualistically or parasitically.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life. From the entry parasitically
  • Similarly, the swipes and taps on your touch­screen form a living signature of your movement.2019 July 10, Vanessa Chang, “How Phone Taps and Swipes Train Us to Be Better Consumers”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast…. From the entry tap
  • Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10. From the entry chat room
  • Similarly, Isiwata obtained a one point realcompactification for locally realcompact spaces.2018 November 20, John Mack, Marlon Rayburn, Grant Woods, “Local Topological Properties and One Point Extensions”, in Canadian Journal of…. From the entry paracompactification
  • Similarly, to view “leadership" as something that resides in a person is to generate a dormitive principle.2017, Bradford P. Keeney, Aesthetics of Change, page 38. From the entry dormitive principle
  • Similarly, wake cyclonic sub-mesoscale eddies generated in the lee of St.2016 March 5, “Eastern Caribbean Circulation and Island Mass Effect on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands: A Mechanism for Relatively Consistent…. From the entry superinertial
  • Similarly, it has been beyond the scope of health care providers or other Intermediaries to address well-being.2015, Dwight McNeill, “Knowing Me”, in Amy Neidlinger, editor, Using Person-centered Health Analytics to Live Longer: Leveraging…. From the entry wheelhouse
  • Similarly, foreign genetic material may be acquired at this locus by illegitimate recombination during genome concatemerisation.2015 July 16, “Spontaneous Deletion of an “ORFanage” Region Facilitates Host Adaptation in a “Photosynthetic” Cyanophage”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry concatemerisation
  • Similarly, our results show that trichlorodiphenyls and tetrachlorobiphenyls with fewer ortho-chlorines are more susceptible to degradation.2015 July 16, “Biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by the novel identified cyanobacterium Anabaena PD-1”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry trichlorodiphenyls
  • An attempt to remove Yuya’s brain was performed, similarly, by using the transnasal route.2015 July 23, “Shedding New Light on the 18th Dynasty Mummies of the Royal Architect Kha and His Spouse Merit”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI. From the entry transnasal
  • MVs have been already tested in AKI model and appear to induce nephroprotection similarly to MSC administration.2015 July 15, Pascal Rowart et al., “Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Therapy in Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury”, in Journal of Immunology Research…. From the entry nephroprotection
  • Similarly, tremor of the tongue can be caused by parkinsonism, alcoholism and thyrotoxicosis.2015, Neera Choudhary et al., “Isolated lingual involvement in Wilson's disease”, in Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice, volume 6…. From the entry heredodegenerative
  • Similarly to participants without asthma, monosensitization was higher for clusters A’ and B’.2015 August 27, “Characterization of Rhinitis According to the Asthma Status in Adults Using an Unsupervised Approach in the EGEA Study”…. From the entry monosensitization
  • Similarly, marine sponge metabolite hymenialdisine was found to be a potent inhibitor of IL-2 and TNF-α production.2015 October 1, “Evaluation of the Anti-Inflammatory, Antioxidant and Immunomodulatory Effects of the Organic Extract of the Red Sea…. From the entry hymenialdisine
  • Similarly, Rebeca's text was not only misstapled but misread as lacking coherence.2014, Catherine Compton-Lilly, Erica Halverson, Time and Space in Literacy Research, page 90. From the entry misstaple
  • Similarly, different gestures can be used for the same goal: slapping the ground and bodybeating for play.2014, Vyvyan Evans, The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not an Instinct, page 38. From the entry bodybeat
  • Its moon has a similarly appropriate name, Dysnomia (lawlessness) in Greek mythology, the daughter of Eris.2013, Fred Watson, Star-Craving Mad: Tales from a Travelling Astronomer, Allen & Unwin, page 35. From the entry Eris
  • Similarly, choux pastry is a much beloved and ultraversatile pastry that is truly unlike any other.2013, Holly Herrick, The French Cook - Cream Puffs & Eclairs, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN. From the entry choux pastry
  • Similarly, high rainfall mistbelt areas have much cloud cover in summer that lowers photoassimilation.2013, Bruce A. Schaffer, B. Nigel Wolstenholme, Antony William Whiley, The Avocado: Botany, Production and Uses, →ISBN, page 96. From the entry mistbelt
  • There, they met other people similarly attired, who also desired to sports with them.2011, Sean Ahern, What It Tastes Like to Be Sane, self-published through Lulu.com, page 140. From the entry sports
  • Similarly, in radio drama there is an audio backdrop, usually called ‘atmos’ (short for atmosphere).2011, Richard J. Hand, Mary Traynor, The Radio Drama Handbook: Audio Drama in Context and Practice, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page…. From the entry atmos
  • Similarly, the program deallocates storage for automatic objects when the procedure returns to its caller.2010, Randall Hyde, The Art of Assembly Language, 2nd edition, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 267. From the entry deallocate
  • And the Maritime colonies were similarly ill-disposed toward a legislative union.2009, Patrick Malcolmson, Richard Myers, The Canadian Regime: An Introduction to Parliamentary Government in Canada, University of Toronto…. From the entry ill-disposed
  • Narnia similarly has its roots in a paracosmic world created by C.2008, David Sobel, Childhood and Nature, Stenhouse Publishers, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry paracosmic
  • Similarly, Mona, a thirty year old white woman, said that she identifies as, “Bi-asexual.2008 October, Kristin S. Scherrer, “Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire”, in Sexualities, volume 11…. From the entry bi-asexual

Meaning of similarly

  1. adverb In a like style or manner.
  2. adverb Used to link similar items.

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Questions about similarly in a sentence

How do you use similarly in a sentence?
Similarly is used as an adverb. For example: “The sisters dressed similarly.”
What is a short sentence with similarly?
“The sisters dressed similarly.”
What does similarly mean?
Similarly means in a like style or manner.

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