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He likens it to carefully designing a car before starting to build it.

Likening their creation to a cultural telescope, they proceed to share some of their ostensibly dazzling findings.

Kiselyov is fond of Third Reich references, likening Russian anti-corruption campaigner and Putin critic Alexey Navalny to Hitler.

He coached me on how to perform oral sex, likening it to “sucking a lollipop.”

He displayed “an attitude of complacency,” with one likening him to “a dodgy geezer.”

Khrushchev was offended by that likening of him to a dog barking.

I can't help likening thee to that poor gipsy wench, Sybil; but may I be scragged if I'd use thee as her lover has used her.

But her nature, which the lover had greatly belied in likening it to her name, was not cold enough for this.

Several Greek poets give us the same association, likening the stars to "rock-pigeons, flying from the Hunter Orion."

He made the retrograde step of likening the head of insects to a single segment.

If she says she is sorry for likening me to Winfield, I will tell her who sent the roses.