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

I love that simile because she did refer to her wardrobe as an “impenetrable fortress.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 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

Mario Cuomo over the grammatical difference between a simile and metaphor.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2024

Colonel Korn was pleased with the simile and filed a mental reminder to repeat it the next time he found himself in General Peckem’s presence.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller