A buffalo is akin to an ox.

Pity is akin to love.

His expression grew very grave as he spoke, and a look of something akin to fear sprang up in his eyes.

In reality, translation is akin to working for peanuts, since the corresponding meaning of something in one language is often hidden in some deep and impenetrable recesses of the other. As a result, the translator is forced to search all over... Never mind that the picky reader is very difficult to fool.

Freedom is akin to the rarified air of a mountain top. Weak men cannot bear one or the other.

This problem is akin to the one we had last year.

The greatest good is akin to water.

The singing of the local birds is akin to the sound of a drill.

For children, poverty is akin to a punishment for a crime that they have never committed.

The process of artistic creation isn't necessarily akin to factory production.