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

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

She felt something akin to holiness; well, she wasn't sure if it was that, but it felt like something stronger than goodness.

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

The threshold of a door is akin to the sill of a window, but it is exactly the same as the sill of a door.

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

It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise, but admirably balanced mind.

The structure of alien life would be fascinating to discover. Would the foundation be akin to Terran DNA and RNA, or be totally different?

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

A good translator is one who, akin to a worm, can squirm with delight around in the author's brain mass, and leave through the tongue to have its taste impressions confirmed, and then leave well-formed traces on paper line after line, sheet after sheet, until the last page is done — and he once again returns to his former self, and as a member of the smallest and least respected low-salary group, signs up yet again to exert his effort for God's representative on earth, the publishers.