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Example sentences for: simile

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

Thus, play ball with seems obvious; but mad as a hatter , though properly a simile, needs an explanation; play possum is meaningful only to those who have been told what it means or have had direct experience with the behavior of opossums.
Joseph finally finds his way through the metaphors, while Rosen proves himself a master of the more prosaic but rich art of the simile.
What We Can Learn From STDs: The most unlikely simile of the weekend belongs to John Harris on Washington Week in Review . Tailgate is "more like herpes than AIDS," because though not fatal, it promises many painful flare-ups.
Or, to use another simile, they are like shrubs transplanted to an alien climate: sometimes the shrub loses its spreading habit or becomes dwarfed; sometimes it expands luxuriantly, taking up more space than when on native ground; occasionally, it keeps its original shape and size.
His similes--there is at least one per page--are either trimmed for historical plausibility (like the thieves Romishly at prayer) or, more frequently, made to involve an animal, the idea perhaps being that in simpler times, a homely, rustic simile would have come to mind.