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used for emphasis: to describe one thing as almost like another (more intense) thing- All the pictures make the living room look like a veritable shrine to her children.
veritable = used for emphasis to introduce a dramatic metaphor
- The back yard is a veritable jungle.
- It will create a veritable blizzard of paperwork.
- A veritable thunderstorm of words came crashing down on me again this morning.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- The veritable flowers of the Pyrenees.Ernest Hemingway -- The Sun Also Rises
- ...we shall contribute one-third to the business and industrial prosperity of the South, or we shall prove a veritable body of death, stagnating, depressing, retarding every effort to advance the body politic.Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
- Mrs. van D. changes shoes and shuffles through the room in her slippers; Mr. van D. too — a veritable Charlie Chaplin.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- I mentioned something to that effect while we were doing the dishes, and Dussel launched into a veritable tirade.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Why, it is a veritable pilgrimage, my dear friend, that you are making to the Temple of Friendship, as the poets would say.Dumas, Alexandre -- Twenty Years After
- He had no sooner uttered those words than we were thrilled by a frightful cry that rang through the chateau,—a veritable death cry.Leroux, Gaston -- The Mystery of the Yellow Room
- At length, however, I grasped the button, and, raising and straightening myself, stood humbly with clasped hands—looking a veritable foolDostoyevsky, Fyodor -- Poor Folk
- The lion's head now shone like a veritable lump of gold.Hawthorne, Nathaniel -- Grandfather's Chair
- It was a veritable triumph.Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- The Yellow Crayon
- He exaggerated every detail, making it appear a veritable Lucullean feast.Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
- As for her veritable mother—!Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
- He was a veritable existential identity crisis, a male stripper with more aliases than a covert CIA agent.John Green -- Looking for Alaska
- The lab is a poky place packed with video recorders, projection screens, computers, and a veritable spaghetti of computer cables.Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
- By this time she was veritably screaming.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- As for her veritable mother—!Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
- SUNLIGHT: A veritable labyrinth!John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
veritable = used for emphasis to introduce a dramatic metaphor
veritable = used for emphasis to introduce a dramatic metaphor
veritable = used for emphasis to introduce a dramatic metaphor
veritable = used for emphasis to introduce a dramatic metaphor
veritable = used for emphasis to introduce a dramatic metaphor
veritable = used for emphasis to introduce a dramatic metaphor
veritable = used for emphasis to introduce a dramatic metaphor
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