Sentence examples for by liken from inspiring English sources

The two phrases have usefully distinct meanings and, although "compare to" can be replaced by "liken to", it's clumsier to replace "compare with" with another phrase.

He recruited Dr. La Guardia by likening her work to that of the Peace Corps.

Hassan Nasrallah, Hizbullah's leader, enraged Bahrain's ruling al-Khalifa family by likening it to Libya's Qaddafis.

(Update: For example, this interactive graphic explains the Higgs boson by likening the Higgs field to a field of snow).

Mr. Hayworth urged voters to "shock the world" by voting him in while Mr. McCain sought to burnish his conservative credentials by likening himself to Ronald Reagan.

In his diary, he began by likening the landscape to Hardangervidda, the spare, treeless mountain range in western Norway where he had trained for his Antarctic expedition.

Charlize Theron has come under fire for "trivialising" sexual violence by likening the press intrusion into her personal life to being raped.

General Susno then made matters worse by likening the commission's pursuit of the police to "a gecko challenging a crocodile".

"The Blue House is countering its critics by likening them to the pot calling the kettle black," said Hahm Sung-deuk, an expert in political science at Korea University.

Another company tries to arouse our hatred against the smells in our houses by likening them to their ill-fated cousins the odors of our bodies.

The audience is meant to leave the theater thinking that she is Charles Manson but starts out by likening her to Mae West.