Example sentences for: likening

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

  • As recently as four years ago, pundits were explaining George Bush's defeat after winning the Gulf (and arguably the Cold) War--delivering not just "peace" but victory--by likening it to Churchill's defeat by British voters after World War II: Peace gave people the security to try someone new.

  • National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Tom Davis denigrated Forbes' decision by likening it to "many of his past actions, inconsistent and erratic."

  • While local newspaper coverage has generally been self-pitying, the comfortably faraway New York Times responded with Schadenfreude , likening the Northwest's woes to biblical plagues ("We finally got our natural disaster, as if it were coming to us," conceded a Seattle coffee server) and reporting that "some Northwesterners" confess to a "sheltered, even slightly wimpy quality in their approach to the extremes of nature."

  • Palestinian advocates have exploited the Kosovo war by likening Serbian viciousness against Kosovars to Israeli cruelty toward Palestinians.

  • Gun control advocates hailed the verdict as the first in a wave of lawsuits against gun manufacturers, likening their movement to the one against tobacco companies.


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