Example sentences for: liken

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

  • The result: He still does the khakis and the yacht shots and the polo ponies (and the red-white-and-blue-stripe designs that some liken to the Confederate flag), but he mixes them up with punch-bright colors and exploded logos.

  • They liken the "Pollard Affair" to the Dreyfus Affair, and assert that Pollard was sentenced to life because he is Jewish.

  • The wallaby and the wallaroo were, like the kangaroo, large marsupials which the Aborigines hunted; the koala was also a marsupial but arboreal in habit and sufficiently unique in appearance to have had the settlers liken it to a bear, a sloth, or a monkey in their naming of it; the wombat was a heavy, thickset marsupial sometimes known as a badger because of its burrowing habit.

  • And many computer system managers liken Y2K preparation to auto insurance: Just because you didn't have a car accident last year, it doesn't mean your insurance payments were a waste.

  • Since Kemp is an old quarterback, I would liken the grip the "new" Republican thought has on reality to the football feeling here in Alabama during Alabama/Auburn game time.


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