Example sentences for: likens

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

  • He posed as Rambo on the cover of USA Today . And he titled his 1996 best seller Mean Business: How I Save Bad Companies and Make Good Companies Great . (In it, he likens himself to Michael Jordan and Bruce Springsteen, fellow "superstars."

  • It also likens American affirmative action to race-classification practices in Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa.

  • A piece likens the recent surge in multiple personality disorder to 19 th century hysteria.

  • Judt uncharitably likens it to vague triangulating, falling somewhere "between Communism and capitalism.

  • He likens the revered editor to the character Prince Myshkin in The Idiot : innocent and vulnerable, someone who must be protected.


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