likens in English

verb
1
point out the resemblance of someone or something to.
they likened the reigning emperor to a god

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1. The Bible also likens death to a deep sleep.

2. The Bible likens Satan to a roaring lion on the prowl.

3. The Bible likens ultimate destruction of Satan to the incineration of garbage.

4. Note that Psalm 127:4, 5 likens the parent to “a mighty man.”

5. His Word likens such youths to dewdrops —refreshing, pleasing, and numerous. —Psalm 110:3.

6. Synonyms for Allegorizes include assimilates, analogizes, compares, equates, likens, associates, brackets, classes, groups and matches

7. She likens his legs to “pillars of marble” because they are strong and beautiful.

8. Synonyms for metAphorizes include analogizes, compares, equates, likens, brackets, assimilates, relates, matches, parallels and correlates

9. Job likens the time that he will spend in Sheol to “compulsory service” —an enforced period of waiting.

10. He likens the Kingdom of the heavens to “leaven that a woman took and mixed with three large measures of flour.”

11. (Genesis 1:26; Micah 6:8) The Bible likens our clear identification as Christians to outer garments, worn for all to see.

12. Poet David Keplinger likens Morgenthau’s work to the Confessionary style of Robert Lowell, an old friend whose influence he acknowledges

13. With bars full of hedonistic illustrations and liberal use of the word “ Capeesh ”, Maxo likens himself to a mafia mobster.

14. She likens her geneAlogy research to the logic of a Sudoku puzzle with a big, juicy payoff at the end

15. The Bible likens the work of making a Christian disciple to building a structure upon Jesus Christ as the foundation.

16. The Bible likens the truth of God’s Word to the girdle that a soldier of ancient times wore to help protect his loins.

17. When critics say he is in denial, he agrees. But it is healthy self-denial, he says, which he likens to a recovering alcoholic resisting a drink.

18. 17 Among the most tender of Jesus’ illustrations is the one recorded in John chapter 10, where he likens his close relationship with his followers to that of a shepherd with his sheep.

19. The film touches on the question of the afterlife: the cremator likens death to "a gateway", and Okuyama writes that in this sense the cremator is a gatekeeper and the encoffiners are guides.

20. 60.3 Powell likens Fed’s COVID response to Dunkirk———Part 3 Summary———Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell Analogized the central bank actions in March 2020 to the heroic evacuation of soldiers from Dunkirk in WW2

21. As for the visual component, Perry likens it to "going from Shirley Temple, Betty Boop to more of a Betty Paige , pop art-sarcastic-fun-Lichtenstein picture: still bright, but the colors are more saturated, and it's more metallic fuchsia or purple than bubblegum pink."

22. Thomas describes it as a vital process in which the subject is rendered like the object by a process of information: "Omnis cognitio fit per Assimilationem cognoscentis et cogniti." {36} He likens it to the process by which the seal impresses its form on the wax.

23. When it comes to Billet vs forged aluminum receivers, Caleb talks about grain and likens it to wood grain, and says forging forces the grain to follow the contours of a receiver, trigger guard, etc — while Billet machining leaves the part with all the grain in one direction and simply cuts the shapes.

24. Beget, Bear (Of Begetting), Born: denotes "an abortion, an untimely birth;" from ektitrosko, "to miscarry." In 1Cr 15:8 the Apostle likens himself to "one born out of due time;" i.e., in point of time, inferior to the rest of the Apostles, as an immature birth comes short of a mature one.