analogy

01. ESL students often try to draw [analogies] between English and their mother tongue, but it is not always possible.

02. Looking for an honest man in politics is [analogous] to looking for a virgin in a brothel.

03. His use of diagrams, [analogies] and examples made his presentation much more effective.

04. To try to make an [analogy] between the regime of Saddam Hussein and Hitler is absurd. The actions of Hitler were without parallel in human history.

05. There can be no [analogy] to a nuclear war: it is totally beyond all human experience and comprehension.

06. An [analogy] can be drawn between the treatment of homosexuals today, and the treatment of various racial minorities in the past.

07. When my students worry that they aren't improving, I use the [analogy] of my children's growth: I'm not aware of how much they've grown because I see them every day, but friends who see them infrequently certainly notice the change.

08. Schools are organized like factories, and the educational process is [analogous] to commodity production.

09. The use of [analogies] in writing can help to point out relationships which are not always evident.

10. In a certain way, death can be seen as somewhat [analogous] to birth; both represent a profound moment of transition.

11. René Jules Dubos once remarked that microbes display associations with other living things which have perplexing and illuminating [analogies] with human societies.

12. Samuel Butler once observed that though [analogy] is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

13. Thoreau once suggested that all perception of truth is the detection of an [analogy].

14. The strangest [analogy] I ever heard was when, after bombing Baghdad, the pilot said the city was lit up like a Christmas tree.

15. In biology, the wings of an insect and a bird are considered [analogous] in that they developed independently as adaptations to the common function of enabling flight.