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

Boras then went into one of his similes and word plays.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2023

In making the untouchable physical and the abstract concrete, they are creating not just similes but ways to conceive of these planets as actual places.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2021

Though no writer can avoid idioms altogether—they’re part of the English lexicon, just like individual words—good writers reach for fresh similes and metaphors that keep the reader’s sensory cortexes lit up.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker