Sample Sentences forsimile (editor-reviewed)
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A commonly heard simile is, "It's like looking for a needle in a haystack."simile = a figure of speech that highlights similarity between things of different kinds
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A good simile or metaphor will help your audience to remember a main point.
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The poem’s opening simile, comparing her thoughts to "clouds drifting across the moon," helped readers picture how quickly her feelings changed.
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When she said he was "as subtle as a sledgehammer," she was using ironic simile.
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How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. (source)simile = a comparison that highlights an attribute of something by pointing to a similarity with something of a different kind
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He stopped, at a loss for a simile. (source)simile = a phrase that highlights similarity between things of different kinds
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Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. ... I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. (source)simile = an expression that highlights similarity between things of different kinds
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One could not stand and watch very long without becoming philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog squeal of the universe. (source)similes = expressions that highlight similarity between things of different kinds
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"Who does he think he is — Achilles?" 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. (source)simile = a phrase that highlights similarity between things of different kinds
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It is useless to warn the reader not to take literally all the similes which we are obliged to employ here to express the singular, symmetrical, direct, almost consubstantial union of a man and an edifice. (source)similes = expressions that highlight similarity between things of different kinds
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Well, out of the five or six millions which form your real capital, you have just lost nearly two millions, which must, of course, in the same degree diminish your credit and fictitious fortune; to follow out my simile, your skin has been opened by bleeding, and this if repeated three or four times will cause death—so pay attention to it, my dear Monsieur Danglars. (source)simile = a comparison that highlights an attribute of something by pointing to a similarity with something of a different kind
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Everyone knew about Abby's poems, not to mention her fondness for similes.† (source)
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And a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile. (source)simile = a phrase that highlights similarity between things of different kinds
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With limited instruction, he had perfected the art of withholding his insights, forgoing his witticisms, curbing the use of metaphors, similes, and analogies—in essence, exercising every muscle of poetic restraint.† (source)
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To me, literature is something much more alive. More like a barrel of eels. .... Now, if that simile doesn't put you off reading entirely, you know you're serious. (source)
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I didn't need similes.† (source)
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