Example sentences for: likened

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

  • "Without going as far as the Times [of London], which likened some of his paintings to Monet on a bad day, the exhibition shows the work of a real artist," Libération added.

  • New York urologist Edward Moses employs the same overheated rhetoric on his Web site: "For many men, life without sex can be likened to a watercolor painting that should possess all of the vibrant colors of life, but which has been reduced to sterile black and white."

  • Critics take note of both stars, especially Cook, who is likened by many to a young Winona Ryder.

  • Olhão used to be described as the “little white Cubist town of the Algarve,” its architecture likened to that of North African towns.

  • The truth is that Wieseltier's piece was a shameful, spite-ridden hatchet job on West, motivated almost entirely by the fact that West had been profiled in The New Yorker in 1994 and then assessed (along with lesser lights bell hooks and Michael Dyson) by me in a January 1995 essay that likened contemporary black intellectuals to the New York intellectuals of the postwar period.


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