I hope it doesn't take something even vaguely akin to the Civil War to undo this mess.

A shadowy limbo vaguely akin to the Afterlife, it served as the source of the many supernatural menaces which threatened the "Realm of the Living."

Which, by the way, would be Anubis made a sound that Cwan suspected was supposed to be vaguely akin to a laugh.

The principle is vaguely akin to a jazz musician's improvising on a tune.

Her litter of four stands behind her: vaguely akin to bald-headed human brats.

Here was something vaguely akin to himself; here, too, was someone lost and astray in a strange land.

Almost invariably the answer was, get rid of the fence, a symbol vaguely akin to Lenin's statue in Moscow.

Vaguely akin to some sort of rapturous enchantment, it was actually a dangerous plunge into the bottomless abyss of madness.

Galloping, vaguely akin to the wind shear that can suddenly bring down airplanes, causes cracks and metal fatigue in the lights and, so far, has been all but unpreventable.

Something vaguely akin to the mystical, although performed subconsciously and without the solemnity generally accorded to ritual.