Similes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SIMILES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion).
• the use of similes as a method of comparison

Words related to SIMILES

simile8

Words that contain SIMILES

dissimiles13 facsimiles17 telefacsimiles21

How to use SIMILES in a sentence

• Van Torp did not hesitate to borrow similes from another world when his rather limited command of refined language was unequal to the occasion.
• In the latter he is gifted in the line of similes, which often in his hands make the sermon interesting and profitable.
• But entirely new forms of sentences make their appearance in prose writing, with new pictures and similes brought from India through the medium of the Buddhist translations.
• We have our lark certainly, but both his appearance and note are a most wretched parody upon the bird our English poets have made so many fine similes about.
• It is proper in this Place, to distinguish between WIT, SIMILES, and METAPHORS.
• To nine out of ten of his audience, his words and similes, though correct and sometimes beautiful, were as unintelligible as the dead languages.
• Yet a gallery of highly-finished pictures might be collected from his similes and metaphors.
• Even in the similes, which formed so important an element of epic decoration, the same principle of contrast is maintained.
• The similes and other poetical ornaments, though inexpressibly magnificent, seem no more so than the greatness of the general conception demands.
• He sometimes omits whole similes and sentences, and is now and then guilty of mistakes, into which no writer of his learning could have fallen but through carelessness.
• This is one of the similes of Homer which illustrates the manners and customs of his age.
• Yeats is to hold of less account the things of out-of-doors, but still he uses as similes the ways of birds, as did the old Irish bards whose stories have so informed his.
• Those who sought to measure wit with her found her never at a loss for a reply, and woven through her responses were many similes drawn from her mountain life.
• At any rate, similes or not, there were we two together again at last.
• His tale was full of little similes, at which his audience nodded their heads now and then, approvingly.
• Such similes of elevations are the names of the virtues.
• This long train of similes, in which the images of the lotus flower and the moon so perpetually occur, is too characteristic to be omitted or compressed.
• All similes and metaphors which serve to express his own emotions are carefully avoided.
• Probably in 1826, there appeared at Dresden the Italian Augustino Aglio, a master of the art of making fac similes by means of tracing through transparent substances.
• Similes and metaphors are of great value in rendering thought clear.
• We must remember, however, that all resemblances do not constitute similes.
• It is designed only to admonish all Persons, who speak either at the Bar, Pulpit, or any publick Assembly whatsoever, how they discover their Ignorance in the Use of Similes.
• Kate was getting hold of certain significant similes.
• All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds.
• But when a poet does use similes, he will be likely often to put of his best into them, for they are captivating instruments and facilities for poetic expansion.
• We need not say that his power as a public teacher is due, in a great degree, to his fertility in illustrative similes.
• This assimilation is unavoidable in a poet ignorant of physics, whom human life must supply with all his vocabulary and similes.
• They are enraged with me on account of the form I give to my productions, the written sentences, the similes, the very life of my style.
• One of the common Buddhist similes for human life is fire and it is the best simile for illuminating all Buddhist psychology.
• Dresden china and all the stale similes applied to a type of little woman of whom the modern world has grown intolerant.

Similar words containing SIMILE without suffix s

simile8 dissimile12 facsimile16 dissimiles13 facsimiled18 facsimiles17 facsimileing20 telefacsimile20 telefacsimiles21

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