How to Use like that in a Sentence

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  • Kind of like how Drew Sanders played; kind of like that role.
    — Richard Davenport, Arkansas Online, 11 June 2023
  • Barbie showed up and, just like that, the world changed.
    — Vulture, 25 May 2023
  • How does the board stay attached to your feet like that?
    — Zach Harris, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2024
  • Two years doesn’t seem like that long to be out of the college game.
    — C.l. Brown, The Courier-Journal, 13 May 2023
  • The dash is much like that of past Volvos, but more complex.
    — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Matt Chisholm: There's no proof of — of anything like that.
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Tree stumps, logs, things like that floated in and out of that place.
    — Callie Cassick, Fox News, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Tkachuk poked it in and, just like that, the Panthers were back in business.
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 9 June 2023
  • Pi’erre Bourne started out with me and was at my crib and stuff like that too.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 7 June 2023
  • And then with the punk movement, which had its roots in reggae and ska – the Clash and bands like that.
    — Matt Thompson, Spin, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Okay, but babies tend not to care about things like that.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Then the hair grew back on my head, fine and frizzy, my body hair like that of a prepubescent girl.
    — Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • We got used to not being played on the radio and stuff like that a long time ago.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • But for women, to have a close friendship like that wouldn’t be.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
  • At present, this suite’s main window looks very much like that of the antivirus.
    — PCMAG, 3 Oct. 2024
  • There weren’t the big hotels or anything like that yet.
    — Tricia Despres, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023
  • That would be a gamble for any team making a move like that.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2023
  • And like that, the sword is a character in this TV series as well.
    — Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2024
  • And just like that, another season of The Masked Singer has come to an end.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 18 May 2023
  • To a person like that, the rise of the app stores was pretty exciting.
    — Andrew Williams, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The notion of something like that is a bizarre mystery.
    — Carita Rizzo, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
  • Like, allowing the fame to get to my head or something like that.
    — Lacey Rose, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2023
  • That had to be worked out because of the VFX work for missing digits and things like that.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 25 May 2023
  • Whether that be grief, or something to do with love, or anything like that.
    — Ana Osorno, Town & Country, 14 July 2023
  • But as the season gets underway, Jones doesn’t think of it like that.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 13 May 2024
  • Also: Why are the bodies on top of each other like that?
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 22 Jan. 2024
  • A lot of stuff like that. Was there a specific Jhené song or project that opened that gate up for you?
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 25 July 2024
  • Or my son and I will play ping-pong or tennis or something like that.
    — Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Searching for sunken treasure has never been like that.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
  • For so long, the art world has been quite conservative and obsessed in its categorization: an art fair has to look like this, a gallery has to be run like that.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 5 Nov. 2024

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