Used in a Sentence

similes

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for similes.

Editorial note

I'd go on, but this is one of the most farfetched similes I've seen on this site.

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Quick take

the fifth album from Portland, Oregon ambient musician Matthew Cooper, under the name Eluvium.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of similes gathered in one view.

N

the fifth album from Portland, Oregon ambient musician Matthew Cooper, under the name Eluvium.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for similes.

N

the fifth album from Portland, Oregon ambient musician Matthew Cooper, under the name Eluvium.

Example sentences

1

I'd go on, but this is one of the most farfetched similes I've seen on this site.

2

I feel like you're using child similes to the exclusion of actually reading other people's posts.

3

Taking this to the next level: I come across people all the time that put tremendous effort into building similes for...

4

A natural human tendency is to speak with similes & metaphors.

5

It's also full of figurative language, similes, parables and allegories.

6

The poster makes some odd similes in advancing an argument that the biggest problem is not central computers, but the endpoint devices at substations and such.

7

If you are going to use car similes, and you started it, then git is the car, and the history in your repo is your travels.

8

I typically only search for keywords or similes that should be on the pages though, which almost any good index should be able to handle.

9

It uses all kinds of elaborate similes to make the author (and presumably the sympathetic reader) feel smug and superior, but have very little technical content to justify it.

10

Instead they filled it with shitty similes like this: > Microsoft’s buildings were experiencing data dissonance that would make the works of Igor Stravinsky sound like a barbershop quartet.

11

It was one of those similes that had the tears of laughter coursing down my cheeks as I nodded in complete agreement with the expected result.

12

That's one of the worst similes I've ever heard.

Quote examples

1

Saying "appear.in is like etherpad for videochat" still has meaning even if making similes for startups is now cliche.

2

In any event, the rhetoric about "sovereignty" and its similes is always self-serving and posturing.

3

His similes are a little forced ("battles like this one raged across Beijing like a multitude of CPUs working in parallel, their combined output, the Cultural Revolution"), but he does know how to tell a story.

4

"people don't like my colorful similes?" What similies?

Proper noun examples

1

Similes require nouns and bossy is an adjective/adverb.

2

Similes are a subset of metaphors, anyways.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use similes in a sentence?

I'd go on, but this is one of the most farfetched similes I've seen on this site.

What does similes mean?

the fifth album from Portland, Oregon ambient musician Matthew Cooper, under the name Eluvium.

What part of speech is similes?

similes is commonly used as N.