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likening
noun as in comparison
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Example Sentences
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine previously likened the policy to the rules governing the seas.
Katherine O’Brien, the World Health Organization’s head of immunization, likens the task of distributing the vaccines after the months-long development sprint to summiting Mount Everest having reached base camp.
He likens the franchise model to McDonald’s, where the national corporation gives operators a proven standard operating procedure and ongoing support.
Deborah Berger, who lives on the fourth floor, likened the new regime to living in a giant day care center.
He likens it to carefully designing a car before starting to build it.
Likening their creation to a cultural telescope, they proceed to share some of their ostensibly dazzling findings.
Kiselyov is fond of Third Reich references, likening Russian anti-corruption campaigner and Putin critic Alexey Navalny to Hitler.
He coached me on how to perform oral sex, likening it to “sucking a lollipop.”
He displayed “an attitude of complacency,” with one likening him to “a dodgy geezer.”
Khrushchev was offended by that likening of him to a dog barking.
I can't help likening thee to that poor gipsy wench, Sybil; but may I be scragged if I'd use thee as her lover has used her.
But her nature, which the lover had greatly belied in likening it to her name, was not cold enough for this.
Several Greek poets give us the same association, likening the stars to "rock-pigeons, flying from the Hunter Orion."
He made the retrograde step of likening the head of insects to a single segment.
If she says she is sorry for likening me to Winfield, I will tell her who sent the roses.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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