How to Use analogy in a Sentence

analogy

noun
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  • Finneas, who at four years older was the first to leave the nest, uses the same analogy.
    — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Consider the analogy of trying to outrun a bear—the key isn't to be faster than the bear but rather to be faster than the person next to you.
    — Daniel Baiz, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • What better analogy could there be for a world in which everything can be seen but nothing can retain its own energy?
    — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Imagine sitting on a large couch cushion—in this analogy, your weight is like the ice sheet, and the cushion is the Earth’s crust.
    — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Oct. 2024
  • But know that this piece is far more than a serviceable analogy comparing words, sentences, and ideas to bricks, mortar, and beams.
    — Longreads, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Advertisement The show’s earliest piece might be an analogy for the whole.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
  • Probably the right narrative, the right analogy would have been Korea.
    — NBC News, 12 Sep. 2021
  • There’s also this analogy of war and defense mechanisms and the hard, brutal reality of that.
    — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2024
  • When considering athletic performance, Parham used the analogy of a hand and how all fingers are needed to make a fist.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • To steal an analogy from Bears coach Matt Nagy, now it’s about leaving the flight simulator and attempting to fly an actual plane.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The Competition Isn’t Waiting Going back to our sports analogy, most people on a competitive team start out on the bench.
    — Pia Silva, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Not out of a well, but out of the — what's a good analogy?
    — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 29 June 2020
  • The bus stops at a red light as the analogy lurches to present day.
    — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 17 July 2019
  • The analogy is kind of like sewing through ground beef.
    — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 6 Jan. 2020
  • And this sort of goes back to the offline analogy as well.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Take my analogy away, this idea of a calling in the church.
    — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2021
  • Lakes gives the analogy of a string (the IT band) being rubbed back and forth over a rock (the thigh bone).
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 30 Nov. 2022
  • An analogy can be drawn from the famed Dolly the sheep over 20 years ago.
    — Ana Santos Rutschman, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Munn's essay, which is full of smart points and spot-on analogies, is worth a read.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 21 Dec. 2017
  • And that’s where the First Amendment analogy breaks down.
    — Wired, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Sticking with the car analogy, think of it like a tune up.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The best analogy is the transition from email to snail mail.
    — Polina Marinova, Fortune, 18 May 2018
  • In that way, there’s a good analogy with the Human Genome Project.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 14 May 2022
  • That’s the problem with all of Greenblatt’s half-baked analogies.
    — Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • That may not have been the best analogy, but the point is easy to understand.
    — Darick Spears, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Football analogies were thrown around about how the sides had made it to the 10-yard line, and now these items amounted a flag on the field.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The two choices feel like an analogy for the right brain warring with the left brain.
    — Margaret Farrell, SPIN, 30 Sep. 2024
  • What a great analogy for the way an actor can steal your heart.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
  • The book is too long and has entirely too many physics analogies.
    — Marjorie Ingall, New York Times, 1 June 2016
  • In the board game analogy, this would be the first slide down on a snake, Harper explains.
    — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024

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