similes
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He describes the scene in similes and metaphors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
If he wanted to describe the smell of coffee, he trained the program with examples and then asked it to generate similes until he found one he liked.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
The General was a portly, ugly man, his manners were not refined, and his talk was conspicuous for an eagerness to apply military similes to a very wide variety of matters.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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