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Example sentences for: similes

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

Crane, by contrast, lets his similes go everywhere: In battle, one man has a shoeful of blood: "He hopped like a schoolboy in a game."
In similar vein, there is a profusion of picturesque metaphors and similes framed in local experience as is illustrated in the following examples:
There may even be instances where two clichés trade half their similes.
Frazier controls all his similes so that they stay ruly.
In contrast, the more conservative (?) Scots Thesaurus , by Iseabail McLeod (Aberdeen University Press, 1990), lists only 50 alternatives for drunk , including smeekit, souple , and tosie , though omitting similes and extensive metaphors (which probably abound).