How to Use analogy in a Sentence

analogy

noun

• In the book analogy, base pairs are like the words in the book.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
• Not out of a well, but out of the — what's a good analogy?
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 29 June 2020
• The bus stops at a red light as the analogy lurches to present day.
  — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 17 July 2019
• The analogy is kind of like sewing through ground beef.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• And this sort of goes back to the offline analogy as well.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
• The depth chart, to pull up a sports analogy, is quite small.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2024
• Take my analogy away, this idea of a calling in the church.
  — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2021
• Lakes gives the analogy of a string (the IT band) being rubbed back and forth over a rock (the thigh bone).
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 30 Nov. 2022
• An analogy can be drawn from the famed Dolly the sheep over 20 years ago.
  — Ana Santos Rutschman, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
• Munn's essay, which is full of smart points and spot-on analogies, is worth a read.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 21 Dec. 2017
• And that’s where the First Amendment analogy breaks down.
  — Wired, 7 Nov. 2019
• Sticking with the car analogy, think of it like a tune up.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2024
• The best analogy is the transition from email to snail mail.
  — Polina Marinova, Fortune, 18 May 2018
• In that way, there’s a good analogy with the Human Genome Project.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 14 May 2022
• That’s the problem with all of Greenblatt’s half-baked analogies.
  — Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• Finneas, who at four years older was the first to leave the nest, uses the same analogy.
  — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024
• That may not have been the best analogy, but the point is easy to understand.
  — Darick Spears, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
• Football analogies were thrown around about how the sides had made it to the 10-yard line, and now these items amounted a flag on the field.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• The two choices feel like an analogy for the right brain warring with the left brain.
  — Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
• What a great analogy for the way an actor can steal your heart.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• The book is too long and has entirely too many physics analogies.
  — Marjorie Ingall, New York Times, 1 June 2016
• In the board game analogy, this would be the first slide down on a snake, Harper explains.
  — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
• The straw analogy will work to get water up about 20 or 30 feet.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
• Or maybe the light switch to electrocute you with, to keep the right analogy going.
  — Fox News, 12 July 2018
• So there's no doubt that there is sort of an arms race or a Cold War, like, pick your analogy.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
• Right now, the members are in spring training, to use a sports analogy.
  — Arkansas Online, 29 Jan. 2023
• Then Hamilton asked her to draw an analogy of that view to her world at work.
  — Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2022
• In other words, all of these analogies can only take you so far.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 17 Jan. 2018
• In this analogy, the conversations are the podcasts, and your date is the host of one.
  — Ginni Saraswati, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2022
• Some readers may feel flattered and affirmed by the analogy, ensorcelled by the Murakami-verse.
  — Randy Boyagoda, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025