Use simile in a sentence
Sentences ending with simile
- Then you will understand Proclus's apt simile. [10]
- As Horne Tooke, one of the founders of the noble science of philology, observes, language is an art, like brewing or baking; but writing would have been a better simile. [1]
Short sentences using simile
- The donkey simile vexed you. [10]
More example sentences with the word simile in them
- If I wrote verses I would try to bring it in, and I suppose people would start up in a dozen places, and say, "Oh, that bee-hive simile is mine,--and besides, did not Mr. Bayard Taylor call the snowflakes 'white bees'? [6]
- I was at this time sensible of no pain, and little uneasiness; I can give you no better idea of my situation than by repeating my simile of the bowl of spirit of hartshorn. [5]
- What a pretty simile it is, comparing life to a river, because rivers are so different! [4]
- There is no simile for it, for nothing is like it. [5]
- If we change our last simile to that very old and familiar one of a fleet leaving the harbor and sailing in company for some distant region, we can get what we want out of it. [6]
- The busy bee is a favorite simile with us, and we are apt to overlook the fact that the least important part of his example is buzzing around. [4]
- This simile has been used before. [5]
- The simile is a very obvious, and, I suppose I may now say, a happy one; for it has just been shown me that it occurs in a Preface to certain Political Poems of Thomas Moore's published long before my remark was repeated. [6]
- It was not a simile that was in his mind, or is in anybody's at such a moment,--it was a pang of wordless passion, and then a silent, inward moan. [6]
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