Sentence examples similar to standard similes from inspiring English sources
Juvenal, who had written approximately in the 1st century B.C., coined the expression, and it became for centuries a standard simile in referring to impossibilities.
Thus although Figure 2 is a crude and partial approximation of Vanclay's (1989a) model, it gives a useful overview of much model detail and introduces concepts of Simile notation, most of which is standard system-dynamics notation.
If we call such portraits, portraits that vindicate themselves in the fullness of time by imposing their own novel standards of vindication, Picasso likenesses, we might say that on Fogelin's account of things, similes are Picasso likenings.
Similes are piled on similes.
Metaphors and similes are bridges.
Obscure similes were patiently explained.
Curious how our language asks for similes.
Occasionally, Keefe lets rip with the similes.
For examples of the similes used in the Iliad, see epic simile.
