Example sentences for: likens

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

  • As with its reporting on the original Indian announcement of the tests last week, the Times captures the national pride they have inspired, a feeling the paper likens to the way we felt about our original astronauts.

  • 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."

  • Newsweek likens Apple's new iMac to the Volkswagen Beetle, saying it's both fun and functional.

  • Most astonishing moment: Condit likens the Rodney King beating to the Tiananmen Square massacre.

  • David Van Essen, a neurobiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, likens the current genetic map of the brain to a 17th century map of Earth.


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