simile
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I love that simile because she did refer to her wardrobe as an “impenetrable fortress.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
The settings—generic spaces such as cafés, train stations, hotel lobbies, and offices—tend to be described with similar brevity, while the detectives’ actions are recounted in prose generally lacking metaphor, simile, or fanciful digression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
“The simile with the DNA is more a metaphor but in some way, there exists the connection as mentioned for solving paths.”
From Salon ● Nov. 13, 2024
Second row Samuel Slade's simile, comparing his team's ability to adapt to a pokemon, was the most audacious attempt and when the poker faces started to slip.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2023
“In the account I struck upon an especially suitable simile in comparing the Scenicruiser bus to a loop-the- loop in a surrealistic amusement park.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
In a 1944 letter, he noted that he sometimes found Welty’s gorgeous metaphors and similes a distraction, “touching something outside the story so vividly that for a moment the mind shifts away from the theme.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Boras then went into one of his similes and word plays.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Ted came to England as a broken man with a gentle smile on his face, a head full of homespun similes, cornpone puns and a heart bursting with Midwestern niceness.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2023
Writers often resort to similes and metaphors to describe a wine, likening it to a string quartet or a brass band or a ballet.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
“Yes. Unexpected similes can carry the power of surprise. They’re refreshing, aren’t they?”
From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett
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