How to use analogy in a sentence

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• (theater, performance production) By analogy, text in a similar system used in a performance venue for transcription of a live event.From the entry caption
• Your argument reposes on false analogies.From the entry false analogy
• Perhaps the closest analogy to how A.I. works as a business expense is petroleum products.2026 August 3, Lydia DePillis, “What Are Companies Getting for All That A.I. Spending?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry feedstock
• I think the analogy to the Biden-era megabills is a good one.2025 July 1, Ezra Klein, “The Disaster That Just Passed the Senate”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2025. From the entry megabill
• By analogy with yokels, the ignorance and naivety of woke fascists makes them “wokels”.2022 June 12, J. C. Lester, Wokeness Is Inverted Fascism Plus Hypocrisy: A Libertarian Perspective, page 3. From the entry wokel
• Yet Voldemorting departs from the Harry Potter analogy in one crucial way.2018 September 10, Gretchen McCulloch, “Welcome to Voldemorting, the Ultimate SEO Dis”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2018. From the entry Voldemort
• Futurist poetry is a spontaneous uninterrupted flow of analogies, each synthesized in an essential noun”.2016, Eduardo Ledesma, Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology, and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes, 1900-2015, SUNY Press…. From the entry futurist
• The next group of computational approaches to metaphor assume that metaphor is basically a hidden analogy.2013, Eileen Cornell Way, Knowledge Representation and Metaphor, page 157. From the entry metaphor
• These phases are collectively named nuclear pasta (by analogy to the shape of spaghetti, macaroni and lasagna).2013, José A. Pons, Daniele Viganò, Nanda Rea, “Too much "pasta" for pulsars to spin down”, in Nature Physics, volume 9, number 7…. From the entry nuclear pasta
• Thomas writes of matrescence as spiritual formation drawing analogies with the Judaeo-Christian tradition.2013, Denis Walsh, Soo Downe, Intrapartum Care, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 2003. From the entry matrescence
• A crude analogy is to liken this to water draining noisily from a bathtub.2012, Caleb Scharf, Gravity's Engines: How Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry drainpipe
• As a result, analogies between royal, paternal, and husbandly authority were frequently drawn.2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 211. From the entry husbandly
• A medical analogy: You have a head cold so you go to the doctor for advice.2005, David Hoyle, ISO 9000 Quality Systems Handbook, page 608. From the entry head cold
• In another statement, Faulkner expresses his prowhite zealotry and antiblack hysteria in a racial analogy.2004, Carlyle Van Thompson, The Tragic Black Buck, page 107. From the entry prowhite
• Motivated by an analogy between Nevanlinna theory and Diophantine approximation theory, discovered independently by C.2001, William Cherry, Zhuan Ye, Nevanlinna's Theory of Value Distribution, Springer, page vi. From the entry Nevanlinna theory
• “I draw the analogy of the ‘McDonald’s-ization’ of America,” he said.1997 January 30, Jeff Richgels, “Packer caps are hot item: Local stores can’t keep up”, in The Capital Times, volume 159, number 42…. From the entry McDonald's-ization
• El Caballero's metaphorical castration is duplicated in the squire, who is, by analogy with his master, unnosed.1997, Iluminada L. Amat, Doubling in Don Quixote, page 111. From the entry unnosed
• It had only horror, because I knew unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested it.1931, H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness. From the entry nefandous
• The analogy doesn't work in this context because a fetus and commercial eggs aren't in the same developmental stage.2022 October 21, u/QueerFancyRat, “Legom being proud her eggs helped Legoshi grow big and strong.”, in r/Beastars, Reddit. From the entry chickensona
• Bluestem would hope that with his track record of awful analogies, he might be a little less fingerpointy.2022 August 25, Sally Jo Sorensen, “Triple down bad analogy news digest: Jensen stands by his metaphor”, in Bluestem Prairie: News from…. From the entry fingerpointy
• Rather than a neat grid of inorganic parallels, analogies and nonanalogies are a tangle, reminiscent of a rhizome.2021, Michael Marder, Green Mass: The Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen. From the entry nonanalogy
• Consider the analogy of the game of musical chairs.2020, Nicholas Rescher, “On Explanation and Understanding”, in Knowledge at the Boundaries, Cham, Switzerland: Springer International…. From the entry unseatable
• Computer animation is achieved by using a flipcard analogy.2017, Charles W. Kann, Creating Components, page 96. From the entry flipcard
• By way of analogy, let us consider what it takes to be a good or bad tennis player.2014, Luke Russell, Evil: A Philosophical Investigation, page 166. From the entry tennis player
• In effect, the analogy of writing that lies at the core of graphism has subtly colonized the conversation.2014, Colonial Mediascapes, page 297. From the entry graphism
• The veterotestamentary analogies embody a constitutional and moral value whereby the Nemanjid dynasty is granted historical and charismatic legitimacy.2013, Alexandra F. Vukovich, “Motherhood as Authority in the Life of Queen Helen by Archbishop Daniel II”, in Sini Kangas, Mia Korpiola…. From the entry vetero-testamentary
• This theodicity analogy also explains why politicians have drawn from these metaphoric models to formulate policy to control populations.2012, Wadada Nabudere, Afrikology and Transdisciplinarity: A Restorative Epistemology, →ISBN, page 95. From the entry theodicity
• You are, using an analogy again, sent out by a superself who strongly desired existence in physical form.2012, Jane Roberts, Seth Speaks. From the entry superself
• There is an analogy between how profiling and perspectivalization work and the way the original Minskyan frames work.2011, Claudia Maienborn • Klaus von Heusinger • Paul Portner, Semantics: An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning - Volume 1…. From the entry perspectivalization
• Because larvae of antlions use a similar strategy to capture prey, the fly larvae are by analogy called wormlions.2009, James B. Nardi, Life in the Soil: A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners, page 179. From the entry wormlion
• The theme can be expressed in an architectural analogy.2008, Donald E. Wagner, Kenneth Cragg, Dying in the Land of Promise, page 116. From the entry circular
• Analogies can be overworn, but playing Ratchet is actually like playing an animated film, and that's a rare thing.2007 December 23, Seth Schiesel, “High Scores for the Games of 2007”, in New York Times. From the entry overworn
• Unfortunately, in this analogy, you are the boiled frog!2006, Charles R. Stoner, Jennifer Robin, A Life in Balance: Finding Meaning in a Chaotic World, page 124. From the entry boiled frog
• Cameltoe is slang for a fashion faux pas caused by women wearing snug pants; the term suggests a visual analogy.2003 May 23, Kelefah Sanneh, “Fashion Tip in Rap for Brooklyn Girls”, in New York Times. From the entry cameltoe
• Thus, by analogy, philosophical propositions will involve primitive terms, to be arrived at, undoubtably, by a kind of conceptual analysis.2003, M. Van Atten, J. Kennedy, “On the Philosophical Development of Kurt Gödel”, in The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, volume 9, number 4…. From the entry undoubtably
• Some analogies are deliberate equivocities and others are univocities.1999, Armand Augustine Maurer, The Philosophy of William of Ockham in the Light of Its Principles. From the entry univocity
• Krosnick explained with the help of a football analogy.1997 October 29, James R. Oestreich, “Juilliard Quartet's Musical Chairs; Sounding Board for the New, Strings Attached to the Old”, in The…. From the entry call an audible

Meaning of analogy

1. noun A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
2. noun The proportion or the equality of ratios.
3. noun The correspondence of a word or phrase with the genius of a language, as learned from the manner in which its words and phrases are ordinarily formed; similarity of derivative or inflectional processes.

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Questions about analogy in a sentence

How do you use analogy in a sentence?

Analogy is used as a noun. For example: “(theater, performance production) By analogy, text in a similar system used in a performance venue for transcription of a live event.”

What is a short sentence with analogy?

“Your argument reposes on false analogies.”

What does analogy mean?

Analogy means a relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.