look like

idiom

: to have an appearance that is very similar to (someone or something) : to resemble (someone or something)

You look just like your mother!

That powdered sugar looks like snow.

Examples of look like in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Ashore, this could look like slinging your purse out of sight on the back of your chair instead of keeping it in your lap. —

Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2024 The rain that blew from the branches caught the mesh of his visor, made the visor look like some medieval face guard. —

Cynan Jones, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024 Perez keeps his glove mostly still and low as the pitch comes in, then works on receiving it low-to-high — one of the biggest keys to making low pitches look like strikes. —

Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2024 Authorities said that three of the spy cameras were designed to look like ballpoint pens, and others looked like a battery pack, an antenna and a tiny camera that looked like a button. —

Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 27 Apr. 2024 Some members questioned if the presidential search should look like that, saying some candidates would likely not be publicly looking for a job. —

The Arizona Republic, 26 Apr. 2024 Yet the images make the film look like a movie with twice that budget. —

James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024 The three lines are meant to look like waves and celebrate the city on the water. —

Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2024 Yeah, so what do cleanup efforts look like now weeks after the collapse? —

Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024

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