Sentence examples for likened being from inspiring English sources

The stand-up comic, who currently voices future Ted Mosby in CBS' "How I Met Your Mother," also likened being recognized as Danny to "being in a Big Bird suit.

He likened being shy or outgoing to Triumph and Disaster in Rudyard Kipling's poem "If".

Defensive tackle Barry Cofield likened being stuck in Wisconsin to a "disaster scenario".

He recently likened being prime minister to "being in an asteroid shower, things flying at you every day".

Raphael Fleischhauer, the engineer who co-founded Piexon, the Swiss company which manufactures the gun, in 1999, has likened being hit to "getting slashed in the face".

Elsewhere in the interview, he somehow likened being a closet homosexual in the Thirties era of Alan Turing - whom he plays in new biopic The Imitation Game - to the radicalisation of Muslim youths today.

Hyslop likens being indoors to sitting inside "an acoustic box".

Mr. Thomson likens being with Mr. Toback to being in a movie.

A friend likens being an adult orphan to being the only tree left standing in a forest.

Later, her father chimed in, likening being gay to picking toppings for a pizza.

For Dylan aficionados, those who have examined his every word, every metaphor, the likening is outrageous.