Likening is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIKENING in dictionary:

VERB:
• LIKEN, to represent as similar
• point out the resemblance of someone or something to
NOUN:
• the act of comparing similarities

Words related to LIKENING

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How to use LIKENING in a sentence

• He declared that some in authority had come to the country poor, and were now rolling in wealth, likening them to sponges, that have sucked up and devoured the common treasury.
• Even the Japanese, so highly civilized in some respects, look down on women with unfeigned contempt, likening themselves to heaven and the women to earth.
• The only thing an American would think of likening it to would be three carriages of different shapes fastened together.
• Kenny went forth into a world of old houses, apple blossoms and winding roads, likening himself to Peredur who had gone in search of the Holy Grail.
• Carlyle believed this story, but gave it an almost too honorable turn, by likening the inn at Eisenach to the inn at Bethlehem.
• Landor volleyed forth his thunderous praises over her grave, likening her to Juliet and Desdemona.
• My old likening of Boston to Edinburgh has been constantly revived within these last ten days.
• It is impious to insult the vegetables, by likening them either to human creatures or animals.
• James describes consciousness by likening it to a series of waves, each having a crest and sides which correspond to the focus and margin of attention.
• He was fond of likening his suite of office rooms to the bottom of a ship.

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