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."

Fascinated by nature’s solutions to complicated mechanical problems, such as birds’ flight, he envisioned contraptions along the lines of the bat’s skeleton.

I was thinking along the lines of writing to the local paper, to see if we can get some reaction.

The shape is folded along the lines of symmetry.