"unlikely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- So while Ms. Velez, still bitter, complains that Hunts Point Multi-Service is "a completely different animal" than it was under her father, Mr. Rosa, the unlikely heir to that throne, believes things are not yet different enough.
- As he sings about the newly sanitized Times Square or his romantic misadventures backed by his Spanish Rocketship band, he's an unlikely heir to Carmen Miranda.
- Soft-spoken and introverted, Binyamin Kahane seemed an unlikely heir to the virulently anti-Arab legacy of his fiercely outspoken father.
- Now the designer of uniforms for McDonald's, Trans World Airlines, Avis and Princess Cruises, he is the unlikely heir to such high-profile council presidents as Bill Blass, Oscar de la Renta and Carolyne Roehm.
- Photographed before an intensely blue sky high in the Andes, his rumpled shirt open at the neck and a parka slung over one shoulder, the 40-year-old former Finance Minister seems an unlikely heir to Gen. Augusto Pinochet.
- Mr. Booker, in turn, has become the unlikely heir apparent in this poor, majority African-American city of 280,000 - a suburban-raised, statistics-wielding lawyer with degrees from Oxford and Yale who meditates and peppers his speech with Yiddish phrases.
- At first notice some would have thought him an unlikely heir to the presidency.
- A1 Shea & Gould's opulent offices draw an unlikely heir.
- No listener to the recording can doubt that it is both, or that in Mr. Taha, a rumpled North African with a buzz saw voice, the Clash has an unlikely heir.
- Hunter Bell, as the unlikely heir, rises to the occasion, and knows it.
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