like
/laɪ̯k/ particle C2- Indicating approximation or uncertainty. · There were, like, twenty of them.
- Used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase or an expression of something that happened. · I was like, “Why did you do that?” and he's like, “I don't know.”· A customer walked in like, "I demand to see the manager!"
- A discourse marker used to highlight or put focus on new information or a new development in a story. · She was, like, sooooo happy.· And then he, like, got all angry and left the room.
- Introduces an exemplification or demonstration of the previous statement.
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Thus he came along, supporting himself on a curiously carved stick, his aged countenance lit up with happiness, looking for all the world like one of the aged dandies of 1796, parading the newly opened gardens of the Luxembourg and Tuileries.
AN ARAB Camel-driver, after completing the loading of his Camel, asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down.
Not like the wild young men now-a-days, who think of nothing but themselves.
To my fancy, it is only because he does not rattle away like other young men.”
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