This was so unlike the girl I'd known for a lifetime. Unlike an elevator, it didn't appear to move. His perspective was unique, unlike that of anyone else she'd ever met. He sounded pleased, unlike the moods he'd been in lately. Unlike her father, this creature was capable of sympathy.

We can use 'unlike' as a preposition of manner to show that something is different from another. Look at the examples below: Unlike your mother, you look startlingly calm. It's unlike Sarah to be so quiet in the company of her friends. Prepositions come before nouns and noun phrases to modify them.

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word unlike? Here are some examples. French bassoons had a reedy, pungent tone, quite unlike the rounded timbre of German bassoons. Cleverly, Lee wasn't allowed to tell Zoe his sexuality before he left, unlike all the other rejectees.

Examples of Unlike in a sentence Unlike her glamorous mother, the tomboy preferred tennis shoes over heels. Unlike its neighbor to the south, Canada has universal health care. It is very unlike my mother not to call me when she gets home from work.