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Sentence Examples He likened text message poetry to haikus, the ancient Japanese art of writing three-line poems. The gradual twist of the body may be likened to certain movements in nature, such as that of a vine winding around a tree. Describing the feeling of what it is like to scale a craggy wall with ease, Kirsty likened the experience to a Zen state. In a terrestrial context this scenario might be likened to gazelles, wildebeests, and lions gathering around a watering hole. A polar vortex is a persistent, large-scale weather pattern, likened to a jet stream on Earth in the upper atmosphere. In a 1998 speech, Gore likened opposition to affirmative action to a duck blind. They worship a great force, an entity, which could probably be well likened to Mother Nature. Inside the paper's leader likened the attack to the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbour. The kami can be likened to nature spirits, and Shinto shrines are usually found in areas of natural beauty. It is in fact, her name being called by the dying man in the waking world, where the whiteness of his face is likened to the snow of her dream. The Washington press corps is sometimes likened to a wolf pack, a simile which I find utterly absurd. This consists of a nest of polished steel tubes that have been likened both to organ pipes and to the pine trunks of the Finnish forests. The economist Peter Warburton has likened these circumstances to the reparations a nation must pay when defeated in battle. My naked face has been likened to a canvas by my late artist husband, and like a boiled egg by my own observation. It could be likened to the specialised needs of a lepidopterist researching the markings of a species of butterflies to be found only in Borneo. Here, Rilke compares the rose window of a cathedral to the eye of a cat, the gaze of which is in turn likened to a whirlpool. The affliction has also been likened to Asperger's syndrome, a mild variant of autism. He said it was hard work, and likened it to being an athlete, as exercises in breathing must be done daily. Its flavour has been likened to a cross between a Brazil nut and a macadamia nut. In earlier testimony, I likened this process to water backing up against a dam that is finally breached. Show More Sentences The rapid development of technology has been likened to the coming of the railways for opening up the world. The task of igniting a scramjet, with air going through the engine at supersonic speed, has been likened to lighting a match in a hurricane. By ten we're stripped to shorts and tee-shirts and have a coffee stop under a giant baobab, the tree Livingstone likened to an upturned carrot. A senior figure from the business community likened his dealings with Mulvihill to those with Japanese businessmen. He likened this to the chances that an out-of-focus microscope could be focused by small vs. large random adjustments. In Chapter 2 we likened Mark's gospel to a block of chocolate which can easily be broken up into separate pieces. In this way, the creative process is likened to a search for something that is evasive and transitory, something that is difficult to grasp. As a result, the Democrats' second TV spot likened the Republicans' fiscal policies to a shell game. It has been likened to the lotus, whose exquisite, fragrant blossom grows out of the muck and mire. Shelledy did not know about the secret dealings, which he likened to drinking from a toilet bowl. The electricity system may be likened to a giant mobile with suspended weights. The rat-a-tat-tat of the brown sicklebill could be likened to machine-gun fire. The gradual twist of the body may be likened to certain movements in nature, such as that of a vine winding itself around a tree. To promote their fights, the champ explained to the New York Times, he had called Frazier an Uncle Tom and even likened him to a gorilla. Featuring longboard, shortboard, skimboard, bodyboard, and distance paddle events, the contest has been likened to a water-based Ironman event. The first has been likened to tree sloths and the second compared to koala bears. I likened it to a drunk trying to walk while holding a bowling ball between his knees. For much of this time, he was held in solitary confinement in a tiny cell that he has likened to a grave. She has been variously likened to David Bowie, a painting by Vermeer and a face from a silent movie. Mahadevan likened the Venus flytrap's hinged leaves to a plastic lid that is bowed in one direction and then suddenly pops the other way. Show More Sentences The onslaughts on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are being likened to Pearl Harbor, and the comparison is just. He likened this notion of background knowledge to information stored on the hard disc of a computer. The defender's leg could be likened to a pendulum with the hip as the center of rotation. The scientists who discovered the collision likened it to two high-pressure weather fronts colliding to create hurricane-like conditions. Dr Schweiger likened the effect to being sunburned but said he hoped there would be no long-term problems as a result of the incident. Basically nondescript, it is easy to understand why chimney swifts are likened to flying cigars. British cyclists likened the disparity in size of the two wheels to their coinage, nicknaming it the penny-farthing. The concierge was more prescient that the reformers, whom Du Camp likened to the sorcerer's apprentice. This characteristic of life may be likened to the effect of a force which governs our development and conducts us from birth to death. He likened this to asking an artisan to explain how the convex surface of a peg can possibly fill that of a concave hole. The meditator, for example, is likened to a goldsmith, or to a fletcher straightening the mind like an arrow. Its look has been likened to rotoscoping, but it feels more solid, less amorphous, and yet it moves with greater fluidity. Elsewhere, dune sounds have been likened to drums, foghorns and trumpets, among other things. The rhetoric can be likened to the dated concepts held by eugenicists, craniologists and social Darwinists. Last week Barley Close residents likened their new bins to an invasion of daleks. He likened the Iraqi team to the East Timorese athletes at the Sydney games. A woman staying on the same corridor heard loud punches and likened the blows to those sometimes heard in TV programmes. Ivor Jones, a Liverpool-born pastor, likened the scenes to the devastation wrought in England by the Blitz. In a vague echo of '60s counterculture and New Age platitudes, these crusades are likened to the sacred quest for human freedom. The diaphone has been likened in some descriptions to a reciprocating siren, which in fact it is. Show More Sentences Many likened the situation to a dormant volcano that may erupt violently if matters are left unresolved. Observers of the operation were awed by its precision and discipline, which some likened to military drill. As an index of undesirable traits, testing positive on a drug test could be likened to having a tattoo. When the sale was announced it was seen as one of the most important strategic decisions in the group's history, likened to selling the family silver. McCaslin likened the energy at ARNN to that of a startup, with the handsome salaries to match. They're figures of Greek mythology, three goddesses who control the destinies of man, likened to skeins of thread that they spin, measure out and finally cut. Mohsan likened clock speeds to the RPM's of washing machine drums. Poets of the Mughal durbar likened our muslins to baft hawa. The inside could be likened to an Mayan or Aztec temple of ancient times. The larvae don't smell very good and at some point in their history with humans have had their aroma likened to that of a goat, hence their other common name of goat moth. Rather, they find food via the sensitive touch of their 600 to 700 vibrissae, or whiskers, which have been likened to multifingered hands on the animals' snouts. He likened the fight to the struggle against apartheid and forging links with progressive countries and organisations to finally eradicate apartheid. Viewing the use of insensitive in vitro assays used to understand the equivalent insensitive rodent bioassays can be likened to the blind leading the blind. For doing so, I was likened in comments to Josef Mengele, a comparison that warmed the cockles of my gay, half-Jewish heart. The excitement it caused can be likened to a desperate family's reaction to an imaginary movement made by a comatose patient. Managing director Paul Grant believes the company's growth since its beginnings in 1995 can be likened to the success of a certain well-known brand of shortbread. He likened them to boats in a harbour that could bobble, swirl and move about, changing configuration as circumstances demanded and the design evolved. Yet some critics have likened it to the aural equivalent of purple prose. However, he likened it more to having taken a hold of an electric eel, for she seem to crackle with energy, even though she made no moment or sound. But Le Monde likened her to Hollande, or even Angela Merkel, the stealthily unassuming figure who pulls out the big win. Show More Sentences Miyazaki is often likened to Walt Disney, and on a superficial level, the comparison makes a certain kind of sense. Rowe said Jackson was self-conscious about his skin troubles and often likened himself to the Elephant Man. If the Cape Dutch style can be likened to pastry, then Klippe Rivier is as light as pastry should be, but the pillar-tops are heavy and aesthetically indigestible. This behavior is so unprecedented that neutral observers have likened it to nullification and other anti-majoritarian tactics. His voice had been likened to an oboe, the Elizabethan hautboy. It's a fast growing branch of angling today and I suppose it can be likened to fishing for redfish, snook or tarpon except it's done in freshwater. The British-born stringer likened Letterman to the satirical tradition of comedy in his home country. It is also known as perilla because its shape, derived from the wooden mould in which it is made, could be likened to a flattened pear as well as to a breast. As inferred above, it was appropriately likened to a ray gun at the time of its emergence. Another, Pulitzer-winner Eileen Welsome, likened the atmosphere to anarchy. Utility computing is a pay-as-you-go model frequently likened to the electric industry. Critics likened him to a young gunfighter who knew he could outdraw any challenger. He likened the strategy of Pistorius' attorneys to Muhammad Ali's rope-a-dope boxing strategy. In the same interview the MP likened bilkers to people who steal from self service tills in supermarket. Here sin zoomorphically is likened to a wild beast and by metonymy refers to the result of temptation. He has been likened to a young Chris Waddle because of his slight build and trickiness. In a brilliant figure that combines anthropopoeia and simile, the Lord is likened to a man who takes a lamp to make a diligent search. The mothers likened his behaviour to the last days of Control, who had died in harness, thanks to Haydon, of a broken heart. Burckhardt likened the change to a veil being removed from man's eyes, allowing him to see clearly. The independent states within the Commonwealth would share the same monarch in a relationship likened to a personal union. Show More Sentences The William Brown Street area has been likened to a modern recreation of the Roman Forum. Many Asian lagyt creatures have been likened to, or translated as, goblins. He thought that it was an allegorical depiction of the errors of sensual love, which is likened to a dream. The competition features modified fastnet rules and has been likened to Twenty20 cricket and rugby sevens. Gamal Abdel Nasser likened himself to Saladin and imperialism to the Crusades. Strecker has likened Hmongic to Germanic in its internal complexity, Mienic is less complex. The farmhouse developed into a wonderful home that has been likened to a fairy palace. The durable, dark-colored wood of the coast myall or mountain brigalow has been likened to that of English walnut. A prehistoric souterrain structure at Caithness has been likened to discoveries at Midgarth and on Shapinsay. These fortifications were likened to European castles because of their purpose. Her wagon tour has been likened to several archeological wagon finds and legends of deities parading in wagons. Cermeno salvaged a small, open launch, likened to a large canoe, and loaded it with the 70 surviving crew members to begin the long journey home. Viewpoint aspect can be likened to situation aspect such that they both take into consideration one's inferences. The central part of the Coniston range can be likened to an inverted 'Y' with Brim Fell at the connecting point of the three arms. Anthropologists and Brazilian frontiersmen called sertanistas likened the policy to genocide. When Gogol wrote his great passage on the troika speeding across the steppes, he likened it to Russia itself, advancing across the earth. This pH-dependent change in color, likened to a pH indicator dye, may have different effects in different assays. He likened animal liberation to other movements such as the struggle against slavery and apartheid saying they had seen violence. One fan even had a windmill hat after English golfer Ian Poulter had likened the pin placement on the 18th to a crazy golf hole. Kill Rock Stars founder Slim Moon likened this to Simon and Garfunkel. Show More Sentences She has been likened to Katie, 25, who became one of the most controversial figures in the last series after her emotional meltdowns. Kylycdaroy-lu had accused MyT of carrying out an operation to create dissent within the CHP and likened MyT to the Gestapo. While the cutting action is often likened to that of scissors, it is not necessary for the blades of the spinning cylinder to contact the horizontal cutting bar. They likened the nilgais to militants for the menace caused by them. To my mind, the published form of Dyckia estevesii can be likened to the monstrose crested forms of cactus where the meristem only divides distichously. Law Schools, a critical race theorist likened Kennedy to a Tonto figure, the fictional Indian whose loyalty to the Lone Ranger set him apart from, if not against, his tribe. The legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod is comparable to the deluge myth found in nearly every ancient culture, and it has been likened to the story of Atlantis. One critic unkindly likened her voice to a dentist's drill and a Mersey foghorn, but it brought her a debut hit with the Paul McCartney-penned Love Of The Loved. Still others have likened them to Kang and Kodos from The Simpsons. Within the Homerian saga, the suitors are constantly likened to cattle because, in the end, on Odysseus' return they will all be slaughtered by him. Now a tourist attraction, the Hotel Sidi Driss in Matamata, Tunisia, is built out of five pit dwellings, and has been likened to an earthy silent tomb. Then to Hanukkah's mild surprise a voice rose up and, with laconic precision, likened this rumored brother Alp to the secretion on the nether parts of a she-tur. Examples from Classical Literature One paper likened him to the pilot-fish, which guides the shark to his prey. The thirst of the snow fields is most agonizing, and can only be likened to the thirst of the desert. The soul of man is likened to a charioteer and two steeds, one mortal, the other immortal. The enormous flatboat, that Suzanne had likened to a giant tortoise, darted now like an arrow, dragged by the current. We have likened the Norman to the Spartan, and, most of all, he was like him in his scorn of the Helot. It may be likened to the street cleaner who flushes and cleans the street by means of a hose pipe attached to the water hydrant. The leaves of the plant emit a strong odor when rubbed, likened to that of the lemon verbena. None other can be likened to it in the history of our existence as a republic. Upon a nice performance of the sweating process, which may be likened to malting, the value of the cocoa greatly depends. Except in burlesque or mock-heroic styles, dignified subjects should not be likened to what is trifling or low. He likened her to a motif that remained in his life as a melody that haunts the memory. A ganglion is a nerve centre and, in a sense, each is a brain which may be likened to the one brain of the vertebrate. Consciousness is sometimes likened to a visual field and sometimes to the waves of the sea. Indeed, it was a little harsh and was likened to the taste of a bitter orange. The lesions of the eyes may best be likened to moon blindness in horses. She was small and slender, but no one had ever likened her to a flower. These can be likened too sponge filled discs between the femur and the tibia. I have likened it to a sentinel, but its slow wheel, for a moment, was rather the prowl of a baffled beast. One writer has likened the whole modern system to the upas tree. John Ransom, a Finance Editor for Townhall Finance, likened the Pope to a drunk driver. Show More Sentences As he timed it with his watch, Bassett likened it to the trump of an archangel. To be likened to the languorous effects of some almost stimulating drug. The argument can be likened in some ways to the differences between Cavaliers and Roundheads. This is what I likened to an embattled phalanx, once before. The mark they thus leave on the whale, may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in countersinking for a screw. Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker's last. Traditionally, he says, his profession has been likened to law clerks, whose job it is to assist attorneys and judges with research and brief writing, among other tasks. Dumbacher likened the newly discovered mammal to a small antelope in its physique and sleeping habits and to a scaled-down anteater in hunting techniques and preferred prey. It receives its designation from its being likened to that preliminary up-and-down poise of the whale-lance, in the exercise called pitchpoling, previously described. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of likened? Words that rhyme with likened What is the adverb for likened? What is the adjective for likened? What is the noun for likened? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words liken like-mindedness like-minded likeminded likely to likely likeness likenesses like never before likening likens liker 7-letter Words Starting With l li lik like liken likene