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I don’t think “like” is necessary in this sentence. To seem itself means to look like, appear to be. So, if you add “like,” it may be redundant. We have some examples here: He seemed strong for his age.

Pulling one’s leg

Zhang Liping, one of my best friends, married an American teacher named Martin in China. They live a happy life, but the cultural gap is always tricky to deal with.

Do Civilized BJ Men

This Big Sister looks like your average just-over-the-hill middle ager, but you never really know someone, do you?

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“Thus” and “thusly” are both adverbs and assume the same meaning. So it is not wrong for the writer to say it in this way. However, we have to distinguish between expressions for written language and that for conversations.

Chicken with saliva?

My friend Philip is one of those who prefers eating in small local diners rather than five-star restaurants, and every time he travels to a new place, the first thing he will do is find a diner to have a meal.

Construction for the Inconvenience Here, Please Forgive Us

I have experienced a lot of inconvenient construction during my free-rolling days, from neighboring apartment renovations to full-scale tear-downs of lovely communities, making way for progress and modernity.

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Though the verb to collapse is both a transitive and intransitive verb, it is mainly an intransitive verb. The church fell or caved in on its own. For instance, Sticking a pin into a balloon causes it to collapse.

Unhealthy sex?

Not long ago, panic about “HIV-negative AIDS,” an unknown virus, attracted the attention of world health organizations.

After using the hot water, please back the battle to there

In ancient China, there was a famous general named Yue Fei. He lived during the Southern Song Dynasty in the 12th century, the time of the Renaissance in Europe.

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In this adverbial phrase, the preposition “in” is unnecessary. It will be perfectly right to say “this May.” It is just like adding non-existent feet to a snake in a drawing.