Use comparisons in a sentence
Sentences starting with comparisons
- Comparisons between men of genius for the sake of aggrandizing the one at the expense of the other are the staple of the meaner kinds of criticism. [6]
- Comparisons are odious, but they need not be malicious; and without any malice I wish to compare this journals of other countries. [5]
- Comparisons seemed inevitable. [9]
Sentences ending with comparisons
- Come, now,--he said,--what's the use of these comparisons? [6]
- And we do not mar our enjoyment of each by comparisons. [4]
- They do the lovely Horicon no service who provoke such comparisons. [4]
- Why shouldn't she live her life, and not be hampered everlastingly by comparisons? [4]
- Of two of its attributes only she was sure--that it was to be free from restraint and from odious comparisons. [9]
- I will not debase what I have to say by resorting to comparisons. [9]
- Patriotic as we are, we still turn to foreign lands for our comparisons. [4]
More example sentences with the word comparisons in them
- She had sought to remove comparisons, too, from the limits of her vision; to cherish and keep alive, indeed, such regrets as she had, but to make no new ones. [9]
- For the first time since her marriage comparisons crept into her mind, and she awoke to the fact that he was not a masterful man--even among men. [9]
- Comparisons, as Shakespeare said, are odorous. [9]
- To repeat one of my comparisons, it was as if an early fruit had ripened on a graft upon an old, steady-going tree, to the astonishment of all its later-maturing products. [6]
- It is a note of some of the purest modern writers that they avoid comparisons, similes, and even too much use of metaphor. [4]
- So you will not think I mean to speak lightly of old friendships, because we cannot help instituting comparisons between our present and former selves by the aid of those who were what we were, but are not what we are. [6]
- Again, at the moment when she thought her belief in Clarence and her love for him at last secure, she found herself drawing searching comparisons between him and the quieter young Bostonian. [9]
- It is not meet that I should make too disparaging comparisons between humdrum travel on a railway and that royal summer flight across a continent in a stagecoach. [5]
- What particularly pleased me has been the freedom of criticisms which I have seen from disadvantageous comparisons of my later with my earlier writings. [6]
- Having visited the Louvre and the Luxembourg all in one day, he felt he was entitled to make such comparisons, and that in making them he was on sure ground. [11]
- Arkansaw--it seems a little indelicate to be trumpeting forth our own superiorities, and comparisons are always odious, but still--Arkansaw would certainly have hanged Baker. [5]
- But the railroad is there, now, and it pictures a thousand odd comparisons and contrasts in my mind to read the following sketch, in the New York Times, of a recent trip over almost the very ground I have been describing. [5]
- But comparisons used in the way of description are not odious. [6]
- He instituted comparisons between her record and his own. [5]
This page helps answer: how do I use the word comparisons in a sentence? How do you use comparisons in a sentence? Can you give me a sentence for the word comparisons? It contains example sentences with the word comparisons, a sentence example for comparisons, and comparisons in sample sentence.
