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I like hamburgers; I like skiing in winter; I like the Seattle Mariners this season ‎

I like to go to the dentist every six months; She likes to keep herself physically fit; we like to keep one around the office just in case ‎

I liked my friend's last status on Facebook. ‎
I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition. ‎

AdjectiveCOMmore likeCOMlikerSUPmost likeSUPlikest

AdverbCOMmore likeCOMlikerSUPmost likeSUPlikest

(informal) For example, such as: to introduce an example or list of examples.
1. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

Conjunction

(colloquial) as, the way.
1. 1966, Advertising slogan for Winston cigarettes
2. Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
3. 1978, "Do Unto Others" by Bob Dylan
4. But if you do right to me, baby I’ll do right to you, too Ya got to do unto others Like you’d have them, like you’d have them, do unto you

Preposition

Interjection

Particle

(colloquial, Scotland, Geordie, Teesside, Scouse) A delayed filler.
1. He was so angry, like.

More Examples

Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus [ …] .
- They're either telling you where to shove it, if you're winning, or telling you where they'd like to shove it given half the chance.
- Walt Disney himself must be turning over in his grave right now. He would not stand for his company promoting the image that girls can be beautiful if they are thin and dress like sluts.
Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Like I showed you, the clay goes into the puki, coil by coil.
- Like many of us, philosophers (and writers) can be small-mindedly unkind to their partners and friends.
- Like the spores of other bacteria, when compared to vegetative cells, akinetes are more resistant to environmental stresses.
Used in the Ending of Sentence
- You can send away for a brochure about this hotel, if you like.
- That's just my two penn’orth; you can believe what you like.
- That's just my two cents; you can believe what you like.

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