Sentence examples for rough analogies from inspiring English sources

Bees and flies are separated evolutionarily by 300 million years, yet Dr. Robinson saw the two fly styles as rough analogies for the two stages of being a bee.

Let me illustrate with a rough analogy.

A deck of new cards, as a rough analogy, may be made to "flow" laminarly.

To use a rough analogy, imagine an artist moving from a daguerreotype to a Polaroid camera.

As a very rough analogy, a road may be considered that, after crossing a plain, goes over a mountain.

As a rough analogy two country roads may be considered, both of which go at first in a northerly direction.

"A rough analogy is putting handcuffs on a person so their arms can't function properly," he added.

You have to go back to Spain and Portugal in the 1980s for a rough analogy of the task ahead, though this time it will be harder.

Francis' immediate march to the papacy, to draw a rough analogy, began with the all-inclusive meetings of cardinals called congregations that occurred before the conclave.

A rough analogy of the national-religious camp's effect on the Likud is the Tea Party's radicalization of the Republican Party.

A rough analogy of its action might go like this: Jesus Christ is wandering around first-century Palestine, trying to convince people that he is the true Messiah.