Sentence examples for variously compared to from inspiring English sources

There is lucuma, an Andean valley fruit with distinctive notes of caramel (variously compared to cashew, maple and sweet potato).

But as an excuse for visual dazzle, for a structure of gothic intricacy variously compared to a motorcycle engine and a coffee percolator, Rogers's concept worked brilliantly.

She is an archetypal woman – variously compared to the Virgin Mary, the world's worst strumpet, a visceral animal, a 'box of worm seed'".

In songs, books, newspaper articles and blogs, Jews are variously compared to pigs, donkeys, rats and cockroaches, and also to vampires and a host of other imaginary creatures.

Variously compared to a watchful heron, an obelisk in motion, an amiable crocodile and Mount Rushmore (all of it), Arthur Miller cut a considerable figure well into his ninth decade.

Variously compared to a knuckleduster aggressively punching at the skies, or an electric razor waiting to give the clouds a quick trim, the Strata, with its sinisterly sculpted peak, has certainly put Elephant and Castle on the map.

According to onlookers, the aroma could variously be compared to "a lettuce when you take it out of the bag", "the penguin enclosure at the aquarium", "dead fish", "a cat litter box" and "one thousand pukes".

And if you're a sportswriter they mean you can crank out yet more column inches on the storied rivalry between these two teams -- a competition that has variously been compared to the ancient struggles between Athens and Sparta, to the Renaissance rivalry between Florence and Venice and to a non-nuclear cold war.

Mr. Butler scoffed at the verdict, variously comparing himself to the Apostle Paul and to signers of the Declaration of Independence who were harassed for their views.

The structure has been compared to, variously, a rock formation, an origami sculpture and a stone cloud.

Variously comparing himself to a soldier trapped behind enemy lines, to a foreign correspondent sending despatches from a far-off land, or to a prisoner held for an unspecified offence, he used his writing skills to share with readers his experience of this debilitating condition.