Sentence examples for likened at from inspiring English sources

Love, for instance, is likened at various points to a story, a balloon and a crab.

She was likened at the time to Christina Rossetti and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and her experiments with the dramatic monologue drew comparisons to Robert Browning.

From Robinson alone in 1986 came The Magic Rectangle, his investigation into the nature of television celebrity that I likened at the time to a medieval anatomist rooting around in corpses in an effort to locate the soul.

The real way to fight for women – although why would you, since they don't have any problems unique to women – is to join Fiorina's Unlocking Potential Project, which she likened at CPAC to a modern version of tupperware parties.

The eclipse of the Liberal party by Labour in the early 20th century was likened at the time to the fate of a healthy pedestrian mown down by a runaway omnibus.

In recorded conversations with advisers, the governor, Rod R. Blagojevich, seemed alternately boastful, flip and spiteful about the Senate choice, which he crassly likened at one point to that of a sports agent shopping around a free agent for the steepest price, a federal affidavit showed.

It's not a sensory-deprivation chamber, but it nearly is — and it's in this way that "Eyes on the Lines" comes closest to achieving Solnit's imperative to get truly lost, an experience she likens, at one point (after evoking the Old Norse los), to "soldiers falling out of formation to go home".

President Michael Sata was elected in 2011 partly thanks to anti-Chinese sentiment (he likened work at Chinese mines to slave labor and said he would deport any abusive investors), but immediately forged close ties with Chinese leaders.

In an interview with FierceContentManagement right after she joined the company, she likened the experience at Box with her early days at enterprise content management vendor Documentum.

One of the Yolŋu who informed much of the theorising vividly likened the attempt at a generic 'Knowledge Centre' database at Galiwin'ku to that of the old mission cemetery 'where lifeless but potent bodies of all different connections were amassed together unsupervised' (Christie and Verran 2013, p. 307).

He likened the team at Sky Arts to those he worked with at the BBC as a young man in the early 1960s.