How to Use simile in a Sentence

simile

noun

• What do you think of the author's use of simile?
• The book has a refreshing dearth of simile and metaphor — the poetry is in the things, not like the things.
  — Porochista Khakpour, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• Yet the simile, lodged in my brain, became a sort of prophecy.
  — Meghan Davis Mercer, Orange County Register, 5 June 2017
• The Harry Potter series is often the choice for simile for many my age or younger.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• Basketball is probably the best simile with all the back and forth, fouls, shots taken, missed and hit.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2018
• But those Chandler-esque similes are a problem, even for the best of writers.
  — Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• Cameras can’t probe psyches or create similes in the same way.
  — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2014
• There’s an elaborate simile that expands over the course of a sentence.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
• But despite your choice of simile, there’s no question that the cicada is a bizarre-looking beast.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 14 May 2021
• The tall, straight slide that used to sit in the big children’s section of American Playground in Brooklyn inspired many similes.
  — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• There are no similes in his work, no flights of lyricism or fancy writing, no hints of a deeper meaning beyond the moment.
  — Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2016
• One image follows another, as if there were always the need for a richer simile.
  — Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2017
• The simile is novel and yet the sort of thing a young woman would think; there is assonance and consonance seesawing across the sentence, which is slow and gorgeous rather than quick and thrilling.
  — Joanna Biggs, Harper's Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
• In a brilliant short essay, Lydia Kiesling solves this problem by piling up metaphors and similes.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 25 May 2018
• VanDerveer used the simile of ducks, outwardly graceful but paddling like mad under the surface.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2016
• Her class dissects song lyrics from Bruno Mars to detect and decipher hyperboles and similes.
  — Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Throughout the markup, there has been a long list of clichés, similes, metaphors and allusions — some good, some not so good — as lawmakers trudge ahead with a marathon debate on the two articles of impeachment.
  — NBC News, 13 Dec. 2019
• That was one of many sayings that kind of puzzled me in childhood, even when a picture accompanied the simile or comparison.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• No surprise to hear an Irish lilt and discover an unabashed delight in metaphor—paragraphs without a simile or three are a rarity.
  — Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2023
• As a piano evokes the sound of Sunday morning gospel services, Real Thing compares the values of fine whiskey and honest love, making the simile feel not at all improbable.
  — Bob Doerschuk, USA TODAY, 8 May 2017
• Flush with metaphor and simile, the narrative often waxes poetic, despite the true-to-life subject matter.
  — Heather Grevatt, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
• All of them feature jaw-dropping similes and truly original boasts.
  — Esquire, 26 June 2007
• Scott’s prose can be subtle to the point of invisible — a reader won’t gasp at recognition or smile at very many unexpected similes.
  — Alice Gregory, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2017
• In apparent homage to this simile, the parade’s delivery drivers wore yellow and black hats topped with bee antennae, like heroes in a children’s book.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• Yeah, that's probably a mixed metaphor, or actually a simile.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2011
• Idioms, metaphors and similes are all types of figurative language.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2024
• There's a common simile, metaphor, Sandy, about the difficulty of turning an aircraft carrier.
  — CBS News, 1 Sep. 2021
• Social media was not full of snarky similes and comparisons to cartoon characters.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
• Last night, millions settled in to watch Mikaela Shiffrin’s Pyeongchang Olympics debut only to have their hopes blown away like a loose snowflake on a dandelion, which is a striking simile in both its poetry and its appropriateness.
  — Kelly Conaboy, The Cut, 14 Feb. 2018
• His witty similes and graceful prose have arguably done more to open minds to the potential intellectual value of crime fiction than any other writing.
  — Nate Rogers, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024