Example sentences for: analogy

How can you use “analogy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Continuing with the analogy, suppose there are two types of buses: slow local buses that frequently stop at B, and fast express buses that rarely stop at B. Because a bus boarded at B is most likely local, the average time it takes to travel from C to D (thus the lead time has been subtracted) will be a length-biased estimate of the averages of the local and express travel times from C to D.

  • By analogy with the analysis of variance for grouped data, we define the following measures of variance for a cluster S

  • Continuing with the analogy, suppose there is only one type of bus (so there is no length-bias or overdiagnosis bias), but you only board it at stop B in the morning when the traffic is heaviest.

  • For example, a single Georgia informant used fatpoke meaning a `fat person,' which one might reasonably guess derives from analogy with slowpoke , or it may also be an r -less pronunciation and figurative use of fat pork , a dialect name for `fat back' or `salt pork.

  • For instance, mice immunized with attenuated Friend leukemia virus (FLV) develop an immune response whose efficacy is dependent on the additive effects of at least three separable spleen cell populations [ 33 ] . By analogy, it may be necessary to devise multiple strategies to obtain a similarly complex and effective immune response in humans against HIV.


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