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• Skorupski said, likening it to a cross between a steakhouse and MoMA.2023 September 25, Becky Hughes, “New York’s Hottest Steakhouse Was a Fake, Until Saturday Night”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry blow up
• A morning TV anchor in Oklahoma apologized a day after likening her black cohost to a gorilla.2019 August 27, Mallory Simon, “TV anchor apologizes after comparing black cohost to a gorilla”, in CNN. From the entry cohost
• And likening them to mass murderers amounts to irresponsible, indefensible demonization.2016 January 5, Conor Friedersdorf, “Oregon and the Injustice of Mandatory Minimums”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic…. From the entry Red Tribe
• Anthropologists and Brazilian frontiersmen called sertanistas likened the policy to genocide.2015 August 8, Andrew Lawler, “Do the Amazon’s Last Isolated Tribes Have a Future?”, in New York Times. From the entry sertanistas
• Rand liked to call her view “objectivism” though some liken it to libertarianism.2014, Roger Lee Ray, Progressive Faith and Practice: Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By, unnumbered page. From the entry I got mine
• 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
• Strecker (personal communication) has likened Hmongic to Germanic in its internal complexity, Mienic is less complex.2010, Martha Ratliff, Meaningful Tone. From the entry Mienic
• This likens the insect to another otherish human―not impossibly cruel this time, but impossibly brilliant.2007, Charlotte Sleigh, Six legs better: a cultural history of myrmecology. From the entry otherish
• I liken the exuberance of astrophiles to the desperation of cancer patients.1997 January 12, John Ladasky, “Re: Space junk??? Not here. Time for a new newsgroup?”, in alt.politics.greens (Usenet). From the entry astrophilia
• It's a fragile, whifty to-do -- never serious, never very funny --- which likens love to witchcraft.1986, Joe Baltake, Jack Lemmon: his films and career, page 93. From the entry whifty
• You know the current Moral Majority movement seems to be a likening to that.1980 December 27, K. F. Huck, quoting David Braley, “The Spirit Of The Beehive”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 8. From the entry resound
• Do you liken eternity to an endless succession of days?2024, J. Martin Strangeweather, The Eidetic Afterlife Hypothesis, Santa Ana Literary Association, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry rontosecond
• Censored photos included one of Winnie the Pooh in a car (Internet users in China have long likened Mr.2015 September 3, Patrick Boehler, “Trending on Chinese Social Media: Xi’s Salute, an Autocrat’s Son and Winnie the Pooh”, in The New York…. From the entry pudgy
• Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an “explosion.”2013 June 21, Chico Harlan, “Japan pockets the subsidy …”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 30. From the entry little
• Likened to re-usable parchment paper, silpats cut down on the cost and excess waste of traditional single-use fibers.2013, Hannah Kaminsky, Easy As Vegan Pie: One-of-a-Kind Sweet and Savory Slices. From the entry silpat
• Some liken it to professional wrestling in the United States.2009, Laura Barberena, “Lucha Libre”, in Barry Brummett, editor, Sporting Rhetoric: Performance, Games, and Politics, page 157. From the entry lucha libre
• As with EverQuest before it, concerned citizens around the nation have attempted to liken its addictive gameplay to substance abuse.2008, Matt Barton, “The Modern Age”, in Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games, Wellesley, Mass.: A K Peters…. From the entry World of Warcrack
• Here sin zoomorphically is likened to a wild beast and by metonymy refers to the result of temptation.2006, Eugene H. Merrill, Everlasting Dominion: A Theology of the Old Testament, page 219. From the entry zoomorphically
• The rōnin phenomenon of this era has been likened to a movement for social equality in a suppressive society.2005, Romulus Hillsborough [pseudonym; Jeff Cohen], “Newly Selected Corps”, in Shinsengumi: The Shōgun’s Last Samurai Corps, North…. From the entry rōnin
• Sympathy likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.1997, Chris Horrocks, “The Renaissance Episteme”, in Introducing Foucault, Totem Books; Icon Books, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry sympathy
• The durable, dark-colored wood of the coast myall or mountain brigalow (A. glaucescens) has been likened to that of English walnut.1968, Thomas H. Everett, Living Trees of the World, page 185. From the entry myall
• In this way, you could liken mundania unto a sea, whose tides lap onto the beach of fandom.1965 February 23, Chris Priest, “Postscripts”, in Hyphen, number 37, published 1987. From the entry mundania
• Ahmimou likened the Kemet collection to “a big house with lots of rooms.” But the name is also laden with symbolism, and duality.2021 October 29, Tina Isaac-Goizé, “She Fell in Love With Craftsmanship”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry Ancient Egyptian
• He likens the story of his 20s to “a fully fuelled jumbo jet just reaching take-off point and having to slam on the brakes.2003 October 16, Emma Brockes, quoting DBC Pierre, “How did I get here?”, in The Guardian. From the entry career
• In a brilliant figure that combines anthropopoeia and simile, the Lord is likened to a man who takes a lamp to make a diligent search.2003, Richard D. Patterson, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah: An Exegetical Commentary, page 281. From the entry anthropopoeia
• What they hate • Group entertainment, which is likened to "controlled funtime" and at which they are expected to instantly bond with strangers.2000 May 6, Esther Addley, “What teens want on holiday”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN…. From the entry funtime
• To keep the condition of transsexualism, and the orientation of either heterosexualism and homosexualism separate, try likening the subject to a two-layer sandwich.1992, Stephanie Castle, Feelings: A Transexual's Explanation of a Baffling Condition, page 20. From the entry heterosexualism
• The mothers likened his behaviour to the last days of Control, who had died in harness, thanks to Haydon, of a broken heart.1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 45. From the entry in harness
• When Gogol wrote his great passage on the troika speeding across the steppes, he likened it to Russia itself, advancing across the earth.1960, Lesley Blanch, The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, published 2006, →ISBN, page…. From the entry troika
• Its aroma has been likened to many odors and perhaps it most closely resembles a pungent combination of cinnamon bark vanilla, and tarragon.1958 May 1, Craig Claiborne, “Popularity Increasing; Easy to Make at Home”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry sweet smelling
• The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.1901, Edith Wharton, chapter 12, in The Valley of Decision. From the entry analogy
• These compulsive men – and a handful of equally obsessive ‘femcels’ – have been likened to terrorists, and their forum posts have been unpicked ad nauseam.2020 February 19, Jake Hall, “Investigating the insidious rise of the gay incel”, in Dazed. From the entry unpick
• Then to Hanukkah's mild surprise a voice rose up and, with laconic precision, likened this rumored brother Alp to the secretion on the nether parts of a she-tur.2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 90. From the entry tur
• Milk dishes, such as cheese cake and cheese blintses, are the traditional foods to symbolize the Bible — which is likened to milk, the Rabbi said.1969 May 16, “Jews Will Mark Feast of Weeks”, in The Modesto Bee and News-Herald, volume 92, number 117, Modesto, Calif., →OCLC, page B-4…. From the entry blintse
• When it comes fall this dries up and the wind blows it all over Maycomb County!” Miss Maudie’s face likened such an occurrence unto an Old Testament pestilence.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC. From the entry ooze
• Law Schools, a critical race theorist likened Kennedy to a Tonto figure, the fictional Indian whose loyalty to the Lone Ranger set him apart from, if not against, his tribe.2002, Jim Sleeper, Liberal racism, page 130. From the entry tonto
• The psychology of snake-fright might well be likened to the "Jaws effect," though thank goodness no one has made a film about a killer snake terrorizing Long Island parking lots.1987, Arthur Rosenfeld, Exotic Pets, page 26. From the entry snake-fright
• The incredibly long body as well as the extended wings were of a gleaming purplish-gray colour: I can only liken it to that of a meat fly or common "bluebottle".1930, Sax Rohmer, The Day the World Ended, published 1969, page i. 16. From the entry bluebottle

Meaning of liken

1. verb Followed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare.
2. verb Chiefly followed by to: to make (oneself, someone, or something) resemble another person or thing.
3. verb To represent or symbolize (something).

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How do you use liken in a sentence?

Liken is used as a verb. For example: “The physics teacher likened the effect of mass on space to an indentation in a sheet of rubber.”

What is a short sentence with liken?

“Do you liken eternity to an endless succession of days?”

What does liken mean?

Liken means followed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare.