How to Use analogy in a Sentence

analogy

noun

• The analogy is kind of like sewing through ground beef.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• The bus stops at a red light as the analogy lurches to present day.
  — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 17 July 2019
• And this sort of goes back to the offline analogy as well.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
• Not out of a well, but out of the — what's a good analogy?
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 29 June 2020
• Take my analogy away, this idea of a calling in the church.
  — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2021
• The best analogy is the transition from email to snail mail.
  — Polina Marinova, Fortune, 18 May 2018
• 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
• That may not have been the best analogy, but the point is easy to understand.
  — Darick Spears, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
• Or maybe the light switch to electrocute you with, to keep the right analogy going.
  — Fox News, 12 July 2018
• In other words, all of these analogies can only take you so far.
  — Jonah Goldberg, National Review, 17 Jan. 2018
• Huszar uses a great analogy for this tip - surfers and waves.
  — Ashira Prossack, Forbes, 29 May 2021
• Often people make the analogy that data is the new oil.
  — Makena Kelly, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2018
• And yet stock flash crashes of stock are a useful analogy.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
• Right now, the members are in spring training, to use a sports analogy.
  — Arkansas Online, 29 Jan. 2023
• But what happens when those weather events are no longer just analogies?
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 27 June 2023
• Then Hamilton asked her to draw an analogy of that view to her world at work.
  — Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2022
• In this analogy, air is water, and the drain is the two hurricanes.
  — Chris Bianchi, The Denver Post, 3 Sep. 2019
• An analogy usually works as a low-risk way to make a point.
  — Bill Lane, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2017
• Munn's essay, which is full of smart points and spot-on analogies, is worth a read.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 21 Dec. 2017
• Unsaid but key to his analogy was what, and who, would have to be pruned and removed.
  — Rui Zhong, Wired, 5 Dec. 2021
• And that’s where the First Amendment analogy breaks down.
  — Wired, 7 Nov. 2019
• By analogy, many people might be able to chew coca leaves from time to time.
  — Robert Zafft, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• Berger uses the analogy of a stress test for heart disease.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
• He was armed with an analogy for convincing them about the mayoral race.
  — Jeremy Redmon, ajc, 22 Oct. 2021
• To be sure, historical analogies are easy to get wrong.
  — Graham Allison, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2016
• That’s the problem with all of Greenblatt’s half-baked analogies.
  — Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• The best analogy here is with water, which flows downhill on its own but needs to be pumped uphill.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Oct. 2023
• Or, to take the bad-apple analogy on its own clichéd terms, the rot indeed spreads throughout the bunch.
  — Samuel G. Freedman, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
• But let's not get carried away with the book analogy, either.
  — Lidija Globokar, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024