simile
noun
a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”
similes
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pluralof simile.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In a 1944 letter, he noted that he sometimes found Welty’s gorgeous metaphors and similes a distraction, “touching something outside the story so vividly that for a moment the mind shifts away from the theme.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Boras then went into one of his similes and word plays.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Ted came to England as a broken man with a gentle smile on his face, a head full of homespun similes, cornpone puns and a heart bursting with Midwestern niceness.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2023
If he wanted to describe the smell of coffee, he trained the program with examples and then asked it to generate similes until he found one he liked.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2023
Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes, and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
