What are 14 examples of similes?

Answer 1

1. My stomach is growling like a bear.
2. Before coffee, I am snippy like a crab.
3. He was as fast as lightening.
4. She came down like the wrath of God.
5. I am just as happy as a clam.
6. That hurt like the dickens.
7. The pool water is as cold as ice.
8. I need more bills like I need a hole in the foot.
9. She is as sweet as a peach.
10. He is built like a tank.
11. I walked confidently like an unstoppable hero.
12. The girl stepped as lightly as a panther stalking its pray.
13. Time was as slow as a turtle migrating from the North to the South pole.
14. The sinister man cackled like a hyena in the night.
15. Her breath became strained like a fish out of water.
16. She was as cohesive as a parasite, never letting go, never going away.
17. Her heart beat like a drum as she drew her love closer.
18. My body slithered like a snake to the suave music.
19. The light penetrated the window and fell upon my strained eyes like a stake driven into a vampire.
20. The shot rang in my ears like a gong and it sat in the still in the night as an owl who'd just been awoken and death came as slow as life. (In this there are who similes)
21. as red as a rose
22. as black as ebony
23. as bright as the sun
24. as delicate as china
25. as quiet as a mouse
26. as smelly as a sock
27. as good as gold
28. as sweet as sugar
29. as old as an oak tree
30. as wrinkly as a prune

Answer 2

Simile: a comparison between two seemingly different things using ''like'' or "as".Examples: The moon hung over the horizon like a glow-in-the-dark balloon.

Answer 3

hot as fire

ugly as sin

big as a barn

mad as a hornet

happy as a lark

colder than a cucumber

small as a cricket

cute as a button

hungry as a horse

eat like a bird

swim like a fish

As Full As A Bull

Answer 4

A "simile" is a literary device used to describe one thing by comparing it to another thing. It is characterized by use of the phrase ". . . is like a. . . " Think of it as expressing the similarity of one thing to another even though they are entirely different in nature.

Some example sentences with simile are:

• John was as fast as a cheetah.
• Morgan's eyes shone like stars.
• Her bladder was the size of a pea.
• The dog looked like a lion.
• My friend's laugh sounded like a witches cackle.
• My sisters scream is as loud as my CD player on full blast.
• The cat was as white as the snow.
• The clouds looked like cotton balls.
• Her blood was the color of an apple.
• Today it was as cold as an ice cube.
• He was laughing like a hyena.
• Listening to his laugh was like listening to a dog trying to cough up a potato.
• She was as stupid as a special brick.
• The thief was as sly as a fox.
• The wrestler was strong like a bull.
• She runs as slow as a turtle walks.
• My teacher has a cat as fat as a watermelon.
• Your mom is as skinny as a tooth pick.
• The coat was as soft as a fuzzy blanket.
• Her cheeks are as red as apples.
• My dog is as strong as steel.
• The wind sounded like howling wolves.
• The fire in the fireplace roared like a sleepy bear.
• Martine had eyes as grey as a storm-cloud, hair burnished like her mother's copper saucepans, and skin as white as the ivory keys on the baby grand in the living room. For all her looks, she had a stubborn streak as wide as a cornfield and a singing voice like a cat in a washing machine.

More Examples of similes:

• was as fast as lightning
• was as tall as a house
• as fat as a hippo
• like a spring (When he jumps he is like a spring)
• as smooth as plastic
• as light as a feather
• as soft as a pillow
• as icy as Everest
• thin as a stick
• as thick as a wall
• as hot as the sun
• as warm as an oven
• as cold as a freezer
• as pretty as a picture
• as phony as a three dollar bill
• laughs like a hyena
• as bright as day
• as bright as the sun
• as cold as ice
• as white as snow
• as black as ebony
• as red as a rose
• as yellow as a buttercup
• as loud as a horn
• as sharp as a pin
• as smelly as a sock
• as American as George Washington
• pretty as a picture
• smart as a whip
• screams like a banshee
• eats like a pig
• smokes like a chimney.

Answer 5

1. Cool as a cucumber
2. brave as a lion
3. Fit as a flea
4. Slow as a snail
5. She ran like the wind
6. She floated like a butterfly
7. She stung like a bee.
8. He ate his breakfast like a hungry dog that hadn't eaten food for six months
9. He racked his brain for similes like an inquisitor questioning a heretic during the Spanish Inquisition.
10. His eyes glazed over like the jelly on a jellied eel

Answer 6

1. Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
2. He was as tall as a 6′3″ tree.
3. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
4. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
5. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
6. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
7. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
8. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
9. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.
10. The lamp just sat there, like an inanimate object.
11. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
12. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
13. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at asolar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
15. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
16. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a Bowling ball wouldn't.
17. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
18. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
19. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
20. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.
21. Even in his last years, Grand pappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it hadrusted shut.
22. He felt like he was being hunted down like a dog, in a place that hunts dogs, I suppose.
23. "cute as a kitten," comparing the way someone looks to the way a kitten looks
24. "as busy as a bee" comparing someone's level of energy to a fast-flying bee
25. "as snug as a bug in a rug" comparing someone who is very cozy to how comfortable a bug can be in a rug
26. "as happy as a clam" comparing someone's happiness to the contentment of a clam
27. "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get." comparing the uncertainty of life to the uncertainty of choosing a chocolate from a box
28. "as agile as a monkey" implying someone can move as well as a monkey does
29. "as black as coal" comparing the color of something dark to the very-dark coal color
30. "as blind as a bat" indicating that the person cannot see any better than a bat can