How to Use and the like in a Sentence

and the like

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  • When navigating airports, train stations, and the like, a belt bag is hard to beat.
    — Jacquelyn McGilvray, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
  • Tolkien isn’t some grimdark fantasy writer whose work is all about deadly weddings and the like.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
  • Paint, solvents, aerosol sprays, and the like should absolutely never be stored under the kitchen sink.
    — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The highway between the cities and parks is your average roadway, with gas stations, restaurants, and the like.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2026
  • Wireless plans are ridiculously complex, filled with hard-to-understand surcharges, fees, add-ons, and the like.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 14 July 2026
  • Someday our pickle obsession will go the way of mason jar salads, cronuts, boutique cupcakes, and the like.
    — Elliott Harrell, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Most of our work is technical research papers, comment letters, amicus briefs, and the like.
    — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Most will be sourced from farmers in Mexico, while the rest will be made by local distilleries, breweries and the like.
    — Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Insects and the like Most of the species cats ate were vertebrates – mostly birds, followed by mammals and reptiles.
    — Christopher A. Lepczyk, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
  • Google, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and the like raced to launch their own reasoning models.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The chunky buttons add a stylish touch, and the patch pockets are surprisingly roomy for hands-free storage of accessories like smartphones, earbuds, and the like.
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2025
  • What happens next is that accounts payable becomes the cleanup department, wasting work hours matching invoices to emails, credit card statements and the like.
    — Andrew Zhyvolovych, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Cluttered Counters Make meal prep and clean up a breeze by keeping your counters streamlined, not filled to the max with appliances and canisters and the like.
    — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 9 June 2026
  • On top of that, Tom James has been expanding its catalog beyond traditional suits into sweaters, jeans, jackets and the like.
    — Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 21 July 2026
  • That’s why the systems are built with redundancy — typically to protect against natural disasters, cut cables and the like, but now for attacks, as well.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 3 Aug. 2026
  • As with the rest of the clan, this will most likely be installed at event spaces, lecture halls, immersive museums, large meeting rooms and the like since this range is aimed at businesses not consumers.
    — New Atlas, 6 Aug. 2026
  • That required a whole lot of research about schools, children’s medical care and the like, in addition to the normal retirement relocation fact-finding.
    — William P. Barrett, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • By contrast, Squarespace offers integrated photo editing that gives you more control over cropping, resizing, and the like.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 16 Aug. 2026
  • One way in which Wounaan do so is conscientiously sharing and redistributing food, money, wisdom and the like to foster equity.
    — Chenier Carpio Opua, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Some pumps in the show took embellishment to the next level, adding beads, charms, feathers and the like to create a maximalist landscape across the upper; this aesthetic was seen among some garments as well.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This method is inherent to commercial filmmaking, in which a script functions both as a contract (getting all the participants on the same page, so to speak) and as a shopping list for locations, costumes, décor, and the like.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026
  • An investigation begins that sends the characters in this flick down an internet rabbit hole inspired by David Lynch, John Carpenter and the like.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2026
  • OpenAI, Anthropic, Moonshot, and the like have coalesced around the same method for training their most advanced AI models.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Over the last decade or so, military news has been inundated with discussions on the latest developments in drones, artificial intelligence (AI), and the like.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026
  • While not every instance is this costly, the fact remains that many companies incur some kind of additional cost due to unnecessary spend, lax budget enforcement, supply irregularities and the like.
    — Andrew Zhyvolovych, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Those came on the back of the two English clubs breaching the governing body’s football earnings rule, which limits the size of financial loss clubs can record, after deductions for ‘good’ expenditure on infrastructure, youth teams and the like.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • The proposal also lays out a set of lighter guidelines for battery energy storage centers, proposing a 100-foot distance from schools, houses, hospitals and the like, along with similar restrictions on lighting and noise.
    — Ilana Arougheti july 14, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
  • Algorithmic video feeds have accelerated this transition, as more and more podcast companies see clipping for TikTok and the like as the primary discovery method for podcasts — and, in some cases, whole brands.
    — Max Tani, semafor.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Between impending war, threats of AI, and what feels like daily outbreaks of foodborne illness—who can blame Gracie, Olivia, and the like for rising to the occasion of an undeniably cruel summer.
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 23 July 2026
  • One more World Cup title, and Messi will become a part of the conversation for the greatest athlete of all time, alongside Michael Jordan, Tom Brady, Michael Phelps, and the like.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 18 July 2026

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