similes
Example Sentences
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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
The Nebraska-born Walz also emanates the positivity of Ted Lasso, a Kansan, minus the stuffed-down crippling depression and the barrage of folksy similes.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2024
His witty similes and graceful prose have arguably done more to open minds to the potential intellectual value of crime fiction than any other writing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
Boras then went into one of his similes and word plays.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes, and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
