Feel like meaning in English

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Definition

to feel like (sleeping): to want, to desire (sleep) verb
To feel like is followed by a gerund (a verb in the ING form) when followed directly by a verb:
I feel like going to the movies.

This is an irregular verb:
I feel like / I felt like / I have felt like
I feel like (I'm making progress): I think that, believe that (I'm making progress) verb
this feels like (real leather): this resembles, seems like (real leather) to the touch idiom

Examples

  • "Other times, I feel like I could travel for the rest of my life."
  • "When she speaks to me I feel like I am the only person in the room."
  • "Australian woman : Bruno, I've never said this to anyone before, but you make me feel like a boomerang."
  • "Philip : Yeah, and this sure doesn't feel like Angelina Jolie."
  • "I feel like Brian Jones is going to walk in here any second and say "Hello chaps."
  • "Icarus : I don't feel like I can cope."
  • "Sometimes I feel like I'm pregnant with hundreds of thoughts and words and ideas, and I must give birth to them all!"
  • "Perhaps you were his customer, perhaps his grandchild, or perhaps a stranger who just likes to attend funerals, but the fact is, that with Xavier, everyone felt like his friend."
  • "Do you feel like you're really learning?"
  • "Perhaps you were his customer, perhaps his grandchild, or perhaps a stranger who just likes to attend funerals, but the fact is everyone felt like his friend."
  • "If you still feel like upgrading to first class or business class, then the money to pay for the upgrade will have to come out of your own pocket."
  • "Bruno : I felt like the king of the world while Betty's banquet continued."
  • "Edward : (singing) Sometimes I feel like such a loner, trying to fill the printer with toner"
  • "Listen, do you feel like meeting for dinner tonight so we could catch up face to face?"
  • "Luna : I think it's important everyone here feels like they have friends."
  • "Hopefully, he'll join us when he feels like it."

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