LIKEN in a Sentence

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Example sentences for LIKEN, such as:

1. The mind in that mysterious instant Shelley likened beautifully to a fading coal.
2. Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker's last.
3. I always try to liken a bait pile to everyone in your town sharing the same fork at every meal.
4. The mark they thus leave on the whale, may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in countersinking for a screw.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIKEN
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liken
 v.  allege, or think, to be like; represent as like; make or cause to be like
Classic Sentence:
1  "How you do run on," she said coldly, for there was no insult worse than being likened to a Yankee girl.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  The mark they thus leave on the whale, may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in countersinking for a screw.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
3  Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker's last.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
4  Had the child been there he would have said that a second frog had jumped in; but by most people the sound would have been likened to the fall of a stone into the water.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
5  The mind in that mysterious instant Shelley likened beautifully to a fading coal.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  I always try to liken a bait pile to everyone in your town sharing the same fork at every meal.