Example sentences for: similes

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

  • (`angel dust'), and 167 for powdered cocaine ; in addition, Spears lists eight pages' worth--too many to count--equivalents for drunk , though added to the many metaphors and other words and phrases are many similes ( drunk as a badger,.

  • 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.

  • In everyday life, metaphors take many different forms, including similes (a nose as red as a cherry), proverbs (don't count your chickens before they're hatched), transfer phrases (make heavy weather of...) [,] wellerisms (everyone to his taste, as they said when the old woman kissed the cow), metonymy (the knife for surgery, the crown for royalty), synecdoches (sixty head of cattle, a cut-throat), and swearing (bloody bugger!)...

  • Frazier controls all his similes so that they stay ruly.


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