How to Use liken in a Sentence

liken

verb

• I think that we can liken the two pianists, at least in terms of natural talent.
• Lacey and Murray liken their approach to chess strategy.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2020
• Kurzban and fans liken them more to a grueling dance party with easy moves like air punches set to up-tempo music.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2020
• Biden appeared to liken a cognitive test to taking a drug test for a job or even before his interviewers sat down with him.
  — Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2020
• Take Singapore, a city-state whose economy is so dependent on its airport, officials liken it to the lungs.
  — Niharika Mandhana, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2020
• Public health experts sometimes liken various interventions to slices of Swiss cheese.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 1 July 2020
• It’s now so commonly used as a simple model of physical systems that physicists liken it to the fruit fly, biology’s model organism.
  — Quanta Magazine, 24 June 2020
• Gates is also perplexed as to why testing is still being conducted using nasopharyngeal swabs — an unpleasant procedure that people liken to having your brain stabbed.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 14 Sep. 2020
• But the crooner likens the gap between his real self and his onstage persona to the one between Parker and your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2024
• Greene isn’t the first figure on the right to attempt to liken Covid-19 to HIV.
  — Tommy Beer, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
• At one point in the set, Rife likened acrylic nails to Bugles.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2024
• Gustern would liken the mouth to a theater, and the arch over the tongue a proscenium.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2022
• Some patients liken the 700-volt shock to being kicked in the chest by a horse.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 6 May 2022
• Romer likens the role to a head coach for a basketball team.
  — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 16 June 2023
• Hubbard, 37, likened Cooke’s temper to that of a child.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024
• The Cardinals liken him to the Saints’ do-it-all playmaker Taysom Hill, who can pass, run, catch and be a tackler and blocker on punt and kick coverage and returns.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 1 Sep. 2020
• Yoon has likened the move by doctors to walk off the job as holding hostage the lives and health of people.
  — Jenny Lee, Fortune Asia, 22 Feb. 2024
• Others liken it to torture—for both the baby and the parent.
  — Jasmine Mote, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2024
• The narrator likens this to trying on a dress that’s been forgotten at the back of the closet.
  — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
• Sportswriters likened his fame to Elvis Presley’s and his achievements to Hank Aaron’s.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
• Sportswriters likened his fame to Elvis Presley's and his achievements to Hank Aaron's.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• Colt calls her out for likening viewers to dogs, but, for Leitch, the bacon is the message.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
• At one point in the song, the singer likens herself to a butterfly that has flown away, with no one left to catch her — or reign her in.
  — Tim Chan, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023
• In fact, Heimuli’s family doesn’t liken it to a journey at all.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Jan. 2022
• The title likens the blue, windy atmosphere on Neptune to that of the wintry Cape.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
• Lawsuits have likened removing the bone around the stem to peeling a banana.
  — Anna Werner, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2023
• In that sense, Weisman likens the scenes that take place in the home Sheila and Danny once shared together to a play.
  — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2023
• Perry likens the anti-Vietnam war protests to the campus protests sparked by the Israel-Hamas war in 2024.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 17 July 2024
• Santaolalla, who said he’s been working on a musical stage version of Pan’s Labyrinth with Guillermo del Toro, likens this gig to when he was asked to create music for a video game for the first time.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
• Koenig likened the emerging technologies to social media, noting that social media is a powerful tool that can be used for good but also has the potential for misuse.
  — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 6 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024