How To Use Liking In A Sentence

You know that moment when really liking someone turns into a radiant love - overwhelming, a little frightening and almost exasperatingly fresh?
Winky luved tu drinking frum deh water fawsitt…. she liking hur wadder fresh…it wuz a sinky-drinky fur deh winky-binky. Like the new bowl. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Finally after 15 minutes of perseverance the team scored -- not to the liking of the opposition, who had been defending excellently.
You should feel proud of yourself for not being shallow and liking someone for social status or looks.
Anyway, she was a vivacious, ebullient sort of girl, and I took an immediate liking to her.

Low price Christianity Lu the cloth give is gorgeous, Ugg Classic Short, sexy, and exert everything to attire to have a liking for to is hard to believe.
Tibbs is as resistant to liking anyone in Sparta as they are to liking him. Lance Mannion:
It seems a female trait to be concerned about one friend liking another more than you. Times, Sunday Times
Many interns thrive here but some find that it is not to their liking. Times, Sunday Times
Now, as for those in our church who contend for the ceremonies, many of them are led by such _argumenta inartificialia_, as wealth, preferment, &c., and if conscience be at all looked to by them, yet they only throw and extort an assent and allowance from it, when worldly respects have made them to propend and incline to an anterior liking of the ceremonies. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
I know, I know, I can't coerce anyone into liking cats, but all I ask is that you please have an open mind about the species.
On the other hand, liking her a lot after spending an evening alternating between trying to save her life, kill her, and turn her mind over to an evil demigoddess, is Prince Tarvek, descendant of the fabled Storm King. Archive 2009-01-01
Despite what we might call the numinosity of this situation, Mr Tung takes an immediate liking to the new ‘tenant’, who introduces himself as Mr Chung Tse-hsia.
Alexander, disliking harsh measures, in 1863 approved a new set of university statutes.
He vows to defy the logic of time and arrange the course of history according to his liking.
Ricciardo loving this Madam Catulla, and using all such means whereby the grace and liking of a Lady might be obtained; found it yet a matter beyond possibility, to compasse the height of his desire: so that many desperate and dangerous resolutions beleagred his braine, seeming so intricate and unlikely to affoord any hopefull yssue, as hee wished for nothing more then death. The Decameron
However, Nick, a gregarious chap, had young friends who were in the hospitality industry who suggested that being a hotelier would be more to his liking.
One unpleasant aspect of the commercial invasion of Italy by the Teuton was his liking to live there, and consequently the amount of real estate which he was collecting on the Latin peninsula -- so much that the lovely environs of Naples were fast becoming a German principality! The World Decision
Once their stateroom is fixed up to their liking they stay put, save theirselves the bother of getting pestered by nobodies. MR STARLIGHT
But the other day, when first I beheld thee, whether it proceeded from thy happinesse in fortune, or the fatall houre of my owne infelicity for ever, I know not; I conceyved such an effectuall kinde of liking towardes thee, as never did Woman love a man more truely then I doe thee having sworn within my soule to make thee my The Decameron
Two good efforts in defeat this season, both on unsuitably softish ground, herald the chances of Top Dirham, who will have conditions to his liking this time.
It sounded a little dry for my liking — I was kind of imagining the sort of intellectualist discourse that made the Mundane SF movement sound awfully stuffy, with their pshawing at pulp “follies”. Ethics and Enthusiasm
A seraskier or officer took a liking to me here, and wanted me to stay, and offered me two wives; however I refused the temptation. The Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa The African
But what stopped me from really, really liking it was the utter convolution of the plot.
Using wood for its easy working but not liking its ‘natural wood’ look, the final touch would be an integral black paint which let the acrylic inserts diffuse the blue light through it.
It is, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of acquaintance; and, consequently, that which first opens the door and intromits us to instruct ourselves by the example of others, and to give examples ourselves, if we have any worth taking notice of and communicating. The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
Apparently, one of the master Scientists was trying to cark Scutari blastulas into a shape more to his liking. THE BROKEN GOD
As his eye gives the impression of floating over the landscape, his liking for gouache over a pastel ground give what David Britton calls ‘an ethereal quality, where translucent layers of colour float over a solid base’.
His liking for non-confrontational politics looks like a clever sham, a neat way to duck under our perceptions.
You meet via a local campaign with mutual liking quickly growing to love. The Sun
MMmmmm liking the idea of biddable male slaves right about now … … …. Cheeseburger Gothic » Well that was AWSM!
It's peplos time for both sets, although my AS persona has a particular liking for bling. The Reign of Arthur: From History to Legend, by Christopher Gidlow. Book review
He buys one and thinks as he eats it how he used to pretend that he didn't like yams, chitterlings, and other soul food because he thought liking that food made him seem ignorant and common.
It's vague, but I remember really liking it, but in "canticle", the story traverses many eras, and, deals with the theme ultimately of global violence. Where did the film THE BOOK OF ELI come from?
Her little liking for Royall himself he has destroyed by making, in his "lonesomeness," a single false step toward her. Some Stories of the Month
He had a liking for fast cars.
Westmoreland; and not liking to intrude on his family circle that evening, I sent a note up to Greta Hall, requesting him to come down and see me, and drink one half mutchkin along with me. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832.
To her, in these days of imminent dismay, my thoughts flew out as to a fair protecting saint; until the inspiration of her visionary presence wrought in my fancy with such a dramaturgic power, that I seemed to walk daily with her, and to know all those delicate and sweet propinquities by which liking passes into affection and affection is glorified into love. Apologia Diffidentis
She had a liking for good clothes.
Yordas Cave is the legendary home of a legendary giant, Yordas, who had a liking for consuming little boys.
He wears far too much hairspray for my liking. The Sun
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.
I had advanced so far as to sit down at my window again on my second morning, and to write the first half-line of the chapter and strike it out, not liking it, when my conscience reproached me with not having surveyed the watering-place out of the season, after all, yesterday, but with having gone straight out of it at the rate of four miles and a half an hour. Reprinted Pieces
The literal translation of the term for anorexia in both the Cantonese and Mandarin dialects would be something along the lines of “the disorder of loathing to eat” or “the disease of disliking eating.” Crazy Like Us
The beneficiaries are those so powerful that they are rarely called to account: an elite centered in First World capitals, who, together with their Third World clients, work to arrange the world to their liking. Global Empire: The Web of Control
His liking for the man made him uncomfortably aware of the similarity in their jobs.
It is this sort of nonsense that makes the whole world get to grip with the term schadenfreude whitout really disliking the brits, England claim they invented football but it is long gone since they can dictate who or were the game is to be played. Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
Eloquence, will, from these steppes, likelie enough presume, by like pride, to mount hier, to the misliking of greater matters: that is either in Religion, to haue a dissentious head, or in the common wealth, to haue a factious hart: as I knew one The Scholemaster
We are so caught up in disliking the American culture generated by the media, yet at the same time we are allowing their culture to become ours.
But I can't help disliking our modern obsession with buying things.
Margot pored through the thick brochure three times without finding anything to her liking and within her budget. The Diary Of A Young Girl
As he prepared his shell-shocked troops for life in the basement, his new broom approach was not to everyone's liking.
A divine justice is meted out; Dr. Grant, who begins by liking his goose tender, ends by bringing on “apoplexy and death, by three great institutionary dinners in one week”. The Common Reader
She's a funny girl, yet you can't help liking her.
Although to be fair the curry was a little, shall we say, "goaty" for my liking. Army Rumour Service
You know that someone is salty when they stop liking your instagram pics.
-- "The great Sultan Badur told Martin Affonzo de Souza, for whom he had a great liking, and to whom he told all his secrets, that when in the night he had a desire to visit Portugal, and the Brazil, and Turkey, and Arabia, and Persia, all he had to do was to eat a little bangue ... VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 1
While the children were delighted by the presence of the smaller breeds like pugs and miniature pinscher, the body language of the grown-ups revealed a liking towards bigger breeds like great Danes and German shepherds.
I mean, I ended up liking you and I think you’re a cool girl and all… but that’s pretty much the definition of objectification. Assholes Finish First
an uncommon liking for money
It is not yet clear how much the Internet and social media can help push people to move beyond just 'following' and 'liking' things.
Even though I explained to the tailor that I needed plenty of room in the ass, probably enough for two of his kids to live in, the resulting pants were still a little huggy up the asscrack for my liking. Archive 2009-09-13
Since Obama is such a republican "pleaser" you can bet he will choose someone to their liking. Hello, My Name Is Kevin and I am a Recovering Democrat
Not a total damp squib but still too soggy for our liking. The Sun
He made no attempt to disguise his liking for her.
He had found terms of endearment such as dear, honey or darling too mushy for his liking.
The bishop had taken a liking to me. Seminary Boy
Their great height and liking for beer and lively conversation also seem to have helped. Times, Sunday Times
Same story and everything, just reword it and stuff so it sounds more like this chapter, which I find myself liking a lot.
The battle started when Sindy began to grow up rather too quickly for the liking of Mattel, Barbie's maker.
I see it as folks who prefer digital watches, and don't find anything else to their liking.
She has become the dotty and unpredictable aunt that you roll your eyes about but can't help liking somehow. Times, Sunday Times
Even less to my liking is the additive, "in your opinion," that some companions have been in the habit of appending to my absolute statements about the way the world works. Archive 2009-07-01
She broke a string on her Les Paul right on the first song, then switched to a Firebird which kept shrieking due to some kind of microphonic problem with the pickups not liking the distortion effect or something.
Apparently, one of the master Scientists was trying to cark Scutari blastulas into a shape more to his liking. THE BROKEN GOD
Her guess came a little too close to the truth for my liking.
Hong Kong people seem to have a liking for older candidates.
I have never loathed fish so much I thought as the strong disliking bloomed into full fledged hate.
Their fans were getting a bit too smug for my liking. Times, Sunday Times
The general liking for milk products such as ghee, yoghurt, and panir is a prominent feature.
We like sociability, which is vastly different from liking Society. Miss Billy's Decision
You have talked before but an unplanned meeting in a club turns liking into loving. The Sun
In case you are wondering; in this context I am not referring to young Girl Guides, or delicious chocolate comestibles but to Gordon Brown's skilful habit of answering a question by using a dodgy statistic to not quite answer the question he was asked but one more to his liking. The Today programme and "Brownies"
We share a liking for Italian cooking.
He was pounced upon when I first laid out the pictures, but nobody gives a reason for liking it.
“Wings,” Kennedy repeated, disliking the expression intensely and all the happier that Lukas was running the show. THE DEVIL’S TEARDROP
-- Well, he hires a young half-witted hawbuck for a servant, who didn't clean his boots to his liking, so he began reading the Riot Act one day, and concluded by saying, 'I'm blowed if I couldn't clean them better myself with a little pump-water.' Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities
Our mutual dislike of PETA and it's inane antics is the One True Thing (besides liking guns) that Unites us. PETA's Robot Groundhog
She often tried to provoke Darcy into disliking her guest.
But judging from the ratings they did so to the liking and approval of many listeners.
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Her legs moved fast, tapping on the pads and somehow liking the rhythmic pounding of her feet.
The ground was a little on the quick side for him there and these softer conditions should be much more to his liking. The Sun
I've always had a liking for the sea.
Nothing, he thought, would be to John's liking these days, not parties or philosophies or people. DARE CALL IT TREASON
POOR time keeping, office romances and foul habits are rife in smaller businesses - with one in ten not liking who they work with. The Sun
One monkey in the 8000 range took a liking to the name Oberon and typed it half a dozen times. The Infinite Monkey Theorem
One coolly abstracted the city, taking what he wanted and discarding the rest, reshaping it to his liking with emphatic yesses and nos.
We like sociability, which is vastly different from liking Miss Billy's Decision
There are, no doubt, a few strong tolerant minds which can bear with defects and angularities of manner, and look only to the more genuine qualities; but the world at large is not so forbearant, and cannot help forming its judgments and likings mainly according to outward conduct. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance
The food is simple but good, usually a formidable steak from MacEwans Meats on 17th Avenue S.W., cooked by you to your liking and served with various nibbles from the Italian market.
Once the sides are evenly untucked, you can adjust the front and back of your shirt to your liking.
There may sometimes be good reasons for disliking some politicians.
Anyway, she was a vivacious, ebullient sort of girl, and I took an immediate liking to her.
He failed in his malting business, was unthrifty and careless with money, and had, in fact, no liking for, or ability in, any business except politics.
The next course of cream of barley soup was more to their liking.
Disliking the novelettish type of subjects the company made, he left and, after an interlude in India, joined G.B. Samuelson as a scriptwriter.
The first two volumes were a little too silly and childish for my liking, yet it is a series that has a lot of fun to offer fans of anime, parodying pretty much every genre and major show in the history of animation.
Maybe it's the joy of playing it to friends who pride themselves on liking extreme music, and watching them splutter tea down their fronts.
If the minuet is not to your liking, there's another dance we might try. THE PROMISE IN A KISS
But he has considerable experience in similar vessels and a liking for this type of employment.
Now, I understand that some of Clark's enemies have their reasons for disliking him.
Multiple posts on a single day will lead to more fans unliking your page.
She has a liking for fine wines.
He was also an athletic boy yet he had no great liking for games.
Gravity-defying motor cyclists riding the ‘wall of death’ at funfairs fascinated the masses, as well as poets and people from high society who developed a great liking for these ‘vulgar’ forms of motorised popular culture.
People have weird reasons for liking and disliking anything.
The barons, not liking their new monarch much more than the last, again divide the kingdom. Times, Sunday Times
Sure enough, the bacteria took a liking to O'Connor's snack and turned the solid--terephthalic acid--into PHA. Sustainable: Plastic
If, like me, you have found that movie just too lurid and sadistic for your taste, Sweet Charlotte will probably be more to your liking.
Guilt for "tattling" and shame for liking someone when you know what they're doing is wrong. Net Effect: No More Sexual Abuse
He made no apologies for his rackety lifestyle, his liking for louche and even sleazy companions, his lavish consumption of cigars, brandy and champagne.
The more they drank onstage, the more they indulged a liking for obscure in-group nonsense, the louder the audience cheered. When the Rat Pack ruled supreme
There's an odd melody that I remember not liking from when I saw the film, and it doesn't really work that well, although it's not too bad when it's mixed with dinosaur roars.
I will constrain my heart against my liking, save that I will not delude him with false hopes.
He chooses harsh words by preference, liking unusual or insoluble rhymes, like 'haps' and 'yaps,' 'thick' and Figures of Several Centuries
And on her side gentle thoughts and simple pleasures were odious to Mrs. Becky; they discorded with her; she hated people for liking them; she spurned children and children-lovers.
The chips were crisp and fat, but the egg was slightly underdone for his liking.
The town was too crowded for my liking.
This MMA is too much like a street brawl in front of bloodthirsty spectators to my liking. Would You Buy a Bullet From This Man?
A: He called to ask how people were liking the book about his execution.
Carefully coiffured, dressed in the trendiest labels and liking nothing better than to browse the designer rails with their friends at the weekend, they are members of the shopping elite.
The other thing that crops up in far to much SF for my liking is "psionics", and especially breeds of people who have an innate talent for it. Again With The Future Is Here!
She was in my class at school and she had earlier shown a liking for me. Seminary Boy
'St. John Hammersmith!' says he, steaming up, 'When he trammed ore for three-fifty a day and went to bed with his clothes on any night he'd the price of a quart of gin-and-beer mixed -- liking to get his quick -- his name was naked' John 'with never a Somewhere in Red Gap
He made no apologies for his rackety lifestyle, his liking for louche and even sleazy companions, his lavish consumption of cigars, brandy and champagne.
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They are sallow, fretty, plain little things, but I'm conscientiously liking them as hard as ever I can. Jane Journeys On
Apparently Justine, normally so isolationist, returned his liking; she had gone to sleep. THE THORN BIRDS
We repeated that joke so much that we ended up liking its simplicity, and, through repetition, it was adopted as our preshow anthem. Fallin’ Up
Ivan Nastiklof was there, hanging over a basin, vying with its pallor, muttering to himself and disliking what he heard. SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
Len said while Warren is always fun to watch there was too much "gyrating" for his liking. Starpulse Entertainment News
Not a total damp squib but still too soggy for our liking. The Sun
She studied him as he summoned the waitress and ordered more tea, and found what she saw to her liking.
The analogue sticks felt a little light for my liking - there wasn't too much resistance in the movement, making it a little prone to oversteer.
Their great height and liking for beer and lively conversation also seem to have helped. Times, Sunday Times
The town was too crowded for my liking.
The French, supposedly a nation of gourmets, also had good things to say about Scottish food, showing a liking for dishes such as haggis.
Congressional Republicans have made an increase in the debt ceiling contingent on a balanced budget agreement to their liking.
He makes us feel good about not liking French people by dressing up in ridiculous national costumes and acting dumb while interviewing a procession of stereotypical Eurofreaks.
The new West Indies management team seemed to have had a liking for the use of cutting-edge technology in its verbal assault.
For the athlete who will spend days on an aiguille for the sake of gymnastics has less of the true stuff in him than the simple fellow who goes a walking tour in Devonshire from an honest liking for high places.
I have to confess to rather liking Jane Green though – I read ‘The Beach House’ simply because it is set in Nantucket which is one of my favourite places, and was very pleasantly suprised indeed. Me and Chick-Lit « Tales from the Reading Room
It also found a positive correlation between liking technology and being confident about meeting people. Times, Sunday Times
But flagrant fabrications such as "Obama liking Reagan's policies" hurts not only Obama in terms of voters who may believe it, and Hillary, for those who don't, but it hurts the Democrats because it represents the kind of brutish, deceptive politics Americans now routinely hate. Obama Winning Spin War Over Who's Victim In Campaign
she developed a liking for gin
Honda originally intended to name the car Fitta, but did not take a liking to the word's meaning in some languages - in Swedish and Norwegian, "fitta" or "fitte" is a rather crude slang term for female genitalia - resulting in a last-minute change. 13 Unfortunate Translations That Harmed Brand Reputations
Not a total damp squib but still too soggy for our liking. The Sun
If it had been pride that interfered with her accepting Lord Warburton such a betise was singularly misplaced; and she was so conscious of liking him that she ventured to assure herself it was the very softness, and the fine intelligence, of sympathy. The Portrait of a Lady
I came across fewer real turkeys than outstandingly good books, mainly because I tend not to dip into a novel unless I think I've got a good chance of liking it.
Through Shine he has discovered a liking for exercise, including swimming, badminton and table tennis.
The island is too slow for her liking.
When Michael invites Tom on holiday with the family in their summerhouse, Tom takes a liking to a young pretty actress, called Avice Crichton (Lucy Punch).
We need a critical body that is unafraid of disliking something.
Five years had failed to obliterate Eileen's liking for courtesy titles. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
Those scoring high on the blirt scale report higher levels of assertiveness, extraversion, self-esteem, self-liking, self-competence and positive effect. Why Nagging Women And Silent Men Drive Each Other Crazy
If I so much as took a breath too deeply for her liking, she would glare daggers at me.
Columella was a Roman soldier and farmer who wrote extensively on agriculture and similar subjects, hoping to foster in people a love for farming and a liking for the simple life.
GROSS: I'm just curious, if this isn't too personal, did it change your idea of what sexy is to see, like, mostly nearly naked women dancing all the time and then not liking them? Zach Galifianakis: A Comedic Actor Takes A Dark Turn
Five years had failed to obliterate Eileen's liking for courtesy titles. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
In the middle is a happy egg weebl, then there are two pieces of bellpepper filled with caponata (which is still good) and decorated with fresh herbs, then there are some grapes, two dates, two physalis, bell pepper sticks, and the last of the tiny cheese tarts. * sigh* They were cute, but expensive, since I ended up not liking one of three … Bento #103 – Happy Egg « Were rabbits
The controls aren't as easy as they were on the previous games, it's very dark and to be honest I think they have dumbed it down too much, too many hints and clues for my liking, making it far too easy to progress through.
The only thing I haven't found to my liking is a refrigerator ... Bring furniture or buy new
And on her side gentle thoughts and simple pleasures were odious to Mrs. Becky; they discorded with her; she hated people for liking them; she spurned children and children-lovers. Vanity Fair
But Sir Condy all this time, and a great while afterwards, was at a terrible nonplus; for he had no liking, not he, to stage-plays, nor to Miss Isabella either — to his mind, as it came out over a bowl of whisky-punch at home, his little Judy Castle Rackrent
Acknowledging that professing a liking for ska can be a rock band's death wish, O'Dell stands by their tastes.
Made piles of money with Faith No More, used it to start his own record label ipecac and make weird stuff to his liking. Whom Do You Want to Hear From? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
I'd love to know how to reward folks for 'liking' my page with a coupon.
Because we use the same verb to characterize what pleases and what gratifies us, we are inclined to expect, erroneously, that the liking comes from the same source.
An unplanned meeting can turn mild liking into red hot loving. The Sun
She has become the dotty and unpredictable aunt that you roll your eyes about but can't help liking somehow. Times, Sunday Times
Low price Christianity Lu the cloth give is gorgeous, Ugg Classic Short, sexy, and exert everything to attire to have a liking for to is hard to believe.
He showed his liking for Cheltenham when finishing second in this 12 months ago and has been kept to a quiet campaign with this race in mind. The Sun
Give it a taste and add more flavourings until it's blended in heat and sourness to your liking.
Perhaps what would be worse than a barrister liking his or her client would be disliking the client, especially when the accused is charged with morally repugnant crimes.
I know I was talking about liking the rain, but c'mon!
After a few drinks her boss started getting too familiar for her liking.
I've always had a liking for reading
Lip-lip not existed, he would have passed his puppyhood with the other puppies and grown up more doglike and with more liking for dogs. The Enemy of His Kind
When did I stop liking people, and begin to hate them with such venom?
Congressional Republicans have made an increase in the debt ceiling contingent on a balanced budget agreement to their liking.
However, over the years he developed a liking for prosecution and when he got the opportunity, he just grabbed it.
The reliable finding is that participants give consistently higher liking ratings to novel grammatical strings than novel ungrammatical strings.
I developed a liking for devotional songs of the Goddess from childhood.
In the winter, reasons for socklessness included feeling more relaxed with unconstrained feet, just being in the habit of it, and just liking being barefoot. Summer holidays, or the lack thereof, in Japan
Aphids, chafer beetles and boring insects find roses to their liking.
I have a strong liking for duck $16, so that was a given, here delivered in a bowl ripe with aromatic 5-spice powder, accompanied by charred frisee, chicory, tamarin syrup, and grains of paradise, a pungent spice. Jay Weston: Good Evening Vietnam: Red Medicine Is Here
Many interns thrive here but some find that it is not to their liking. Times, Sunday Times
Acknowledging that professing a liking for ska can be a rock band's death wish, O'Dell stands by their tastes.
I say all this to say that if you should try this “Rauchwein” and not find it to your liking, all that it might require is an appropriate food pairing. Earth, wind and fire: tasting the terroir, Sonoma, 2008 | Dr Vino's wine blog

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