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- For example.
Waterbirds, such as the duck or the gull, are common in the area. - Like, of the kind mentioned.
I was never in a country such as that.
A plan such as you propose will never succeed.- 1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret:
[…] the benighted stranger […] might have easily […] mistaken the hospitable mansion for a good, old-fashioned inn, such as have faded from this earth since the last mail coach and prancing tits took their last melancholy journey to the knacker's yard. - 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or […] . And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
- 1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret:
In the sense of “for example”, such as is preferred to like in formal writing.
- (for example): for example, for instance, e.g., like
like
Arabic: هَكَذَا (hakaḏā)
Egyptian Arabic: زي كدا (zai keda), كدا (keda)Chinese:
Dungan: зущён (zuxi͡on)
Mandarin: 諸如 / 诸如 (zh) (zhūrú)Georgian: მსგავს (msgavs), ისეთივე როგორც (isetive rogorc)
Russian: тако́й (takój) ... как (kak) (takój ... kak) (e.g. "такой день (denʹ) как ..." - a day such as ...), тако́й (takój) как (kak) (takój kak), как (ru) (kak), как наприме́р (kak naprimér)