English example sentences with "along the lines of"

In very broken Berber, he said something along the lines of: "We don't need your help anymore."
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Fascinated by nature’s solutions to complicated mechanical problems, such as birds’ flight, he envisioned contraptions along the lines of the bat’s skeleton.
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I was thinking along the lines of writing to the local paper, to see if we can get some reaction.
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The shape is folded along the lines of symmetry.
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