simile
Example Sentences
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The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
He once used an unexpectedly shocking simile to denounce what he termed "hypocritical clericalism".
From BBC • Apr. 22, 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
Later, when asked about his evolution as a coach, Harbaugh described himself as open to change and used a mall-entrance simile to make his point.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2024
But soon they found an explanation, which he illustrates with a looser simile: We’re all used to gravity being a force that does only one thing: pull objects toward each other.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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