How to Use liken in a Sentence

liken

verb
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  • I think that we can liken the two pianists, at least in terms of natural talent.
  • Greene isn’t the first figure on the right to attempt to liken Covid-19 to HIV.
    — Tommy Beer, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
  • At one point in the set, Rife likened acrylic nails to Bugles.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Gustern would liken the mouth to a theater, and the arch over the tongue a proscenium.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Some patients liken the 700-volt shock to being kicked in the chest by a horse.
    — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 6 May 2022
  • Romer likens the role to a head coach for a basketball team.
    — Anna Oakes, Quartz, 16 June 2023
  • Hubbard, 37, likened Cooke’s temper to that of a child.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024
  • Yoon has likened the move by doctors to walk off the job as holding hostage the lives and health of people.
    — Jenny Lee, Fortune Asia, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Others liken it to torture—for both the baby and the parent.
    — Jasmine Mote, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The narrator likens this to trying on a dress that’s been forgotten at the back of the closet.
    — Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Sportswriters likened his fame to Elvis Presley's and his achievements to Hank Aaron's.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
  • Sportswriters likened his fame to Elvis Presley’s and his achievements to Hank Aaron’s.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • Colt calls her out for likening viewers to dogs, but, for Leitch, the bacon is the message.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
  • At one point in the song, the singer likens herself to a butterfly that has flown away, with no one left to catch her — or reign her in.
    — Tim Chan, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023
  • In fact, Heimuli’s family doesn’t liken it to a journey at all.
    — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The title likens the blue, windy atmosphere on Neptune to that of the wintry Cape.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Lawsuits have likened removing the bone around the stem to peeling a banana.
    — Anna Werner, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2023
  • In that sense, Weisman likens the scenes that take place in the home Sheila and Danny once shared together to a play.
    — Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Perry likens the anti-Vietnam war protests to the campus protests sparked by the Israel-Hamas war in 2024.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 17 July 2024
  • The hot-take bros want to liken her decision to Tom Brady sitting out a Super Bowl.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 July 2021
  • Beatty likened it to trying to see through windshield wipers.
    — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2024
  • Planting started after the massive tulips, which some liken to mushrooms, were in place at the end of 2019.
    — Karen Matthews, USA TODAY, 22 May 2021
  • Rank likens the job market to a game of musical chairs with 10 players and eight chairs.
    — Timothy Noah, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Drake likened his own popularity in the game to the stardom of the late singer Michael Jackson.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Koopman likened their conclusions to calling the race of a marathon before it is run.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Survivors have likened it to the sensation of drowning.
    — Olivia Carville, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • Philip Phillips of Urbana-Champaign likens a strange metal’s electrons to the rubber in a tire.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Cameron likens Voyage’s approach to the early days of Amazon.
    — David Welch, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2020
  • But Nielsen likens it more to a different major franchise.
    — EW.com, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Critics likened the mass resignations, followed by Johnson’s unveiling of a new slate of appointees the next week, to a power grab.
    — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 21 Oct. 2024

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