How to Use simile in a Sentence

simile

noun

• What do you think of the author's use of simile?
• Yet the simile, lodged in my brain, became a sort of prophecy.
  — Meghan Davis Mercer, Orange County Register, 5 June 2017
• Cameras can’t probe psyches or create similes in the same way.
  — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 19 Feb. 2014
• 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
• There’s an elaborate simile that expands over the course of a sentence.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
• 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 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
• But those Chandler-esque similes are a problem, even for the best of writers.
  — Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• One image follows another, as if there were always the need for a richer simile.
  — Alejandro Chacoff, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 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
• All of them feature jaw-dropping similes and truly original boasts.
  — Esquire, 26 June 2007
• 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
• Consider, for instance, the use of rhetorical figures such as metaphor or simile.
  — Nino Letteriello, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• The simile is not confined just to the eyes but can be used to praise the beauty, softness and radiance of a lover’s or the divine’s face, feet or hands.
  — Archana Venkatesan, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024
• Idioms, metaphors and similes are all types of figurative language.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2024
• Yeah, that's probably a mixed metaphor, or actually a simile.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2011
• Social media was not full of snarky similes and comparisons to cartoon characters.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
• Atkins recommends starting with metaphors and similes, which Swift often employs.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 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
• Her class dissects song lyrics from Bruno Mars to detect and decipher hyperboles and similes.
  — Jonece Starr Dunigan, AL.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• VanDerveer used the simile of ducks, outwardly graceful but paddling like mad under the surface.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2016
• 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
• 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
• As the simile suggests, the pen could be used as a weapon, producing militant verses that would advance the nationalist cause.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
• Bank’s wry, matter-of-fact tone makes the stories’ many rueful asides, exquisitely funny similes and snappy one-liners all the more effective.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 22 June 2024
• Flush with metaphor and simile, the narrative often waxes poetic, despite the true-to-life subject matter.
  — Heather Grevatt, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
• 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
• Stoppard’s libretto is poetic but linear, full of juicy similes and winding sentences.
  — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2019
• 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
• This simile has now extended to a discussion of their physicality and defense.
  — Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com, 25 Nov. 2019