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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 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.
There may even be instances where two clichés trade half their similes.
In similar vein, there is a profusion of picturesque metaphors and similes framed in local experience as is illustrated in the following examples: