She seems to have been a 'naughty boy' kind of girl, holding her own bravely in a household which she likens to 'a farmyard full of cockerels and pullets for ever pecking and sparring at one another.
The Bible likensthe relations of man to God to those of a child to its father.
He likens Canning's mind to a convex speculum which scattered its rays of light upon all objects; while he likens Brougham's to a concave speculum which concentrated the rays upon one central, burning, focal point.
Sometimes he takes a similitude from very small things, not considering the size of the body, but the nature of each; whence he likens boldness to a fly (I.
Again the rush of a valiant man he likens to a horse which has had a full meal (I.
Here he makes the vital spirit, being humid, a breath; when it is extinguished he likens it to smoke.
But the multitudes resting in order, he likens to birds settling down (I.
Sharpness of sight and act he sometimes likens to the falcon (I.
But those that produce with no order all kinds of sounds, he likens to (I.
Charity likens us to God by uniting us to Him in the bond of love: wherefore it surpasses mercy, which likens us to God as regards similarity of works.
In like manner Amos, who was a shepherd, likens the fear of God to that which is inspired by the lion's roar.
Seizing upon this, the gladdest festival of Hebrew life, Jesus likens Himself to one of the priests, who with trumpet of silver proclaims "the acceptable year of the Lord.
Reading the sign of the times, in His forecast of the dark to-morrow, He sees the terrible strain that will be put upon Peter's faith, and which He likens to a Satanic sifting.
The Midē´ likens himself to the Bear Man´idō, the magic powers of which are shown by the lines across the body and short strokes upon the back.
Sarvatyaga or total abnegation, means the voidance of the soul of all its worldly attachment, when it becomes the seat of all knowledge; and likensto the etherial paradise of the hosts of celestial beings.
There is the curved artery resembling the disc at the top of lute, and the eddy of waters in the sea; it likens the curved half of the letter Om, and is situated as a cypher or circlet in the base or lower most gland.
It is no hyperbole of the historian of the reformed churches, when he likens their cells to five pulpits, from which the Word of God resounded through the entire city and much farther.
A contemporary writer likens the brood of courtiers she gathered about her to swallows in pursuit of flies on a summer's evening.
Now, it is to be observed that Shakespeare not infrequently refers to kings as suns, and likens them to gods.
Accordingly he likens Swift, before he has done with him, to whom?
Similarly, the biological conception, which likens society to a man, has its contributions.
Knox, in his savoury diction, likens her appointment to putting a saddle on the back of a cow.
They consequently remained so stupid and brutal, that an intelligent observer, who visited Scotland in the year 1360, likens them to savages, so much was he struck by their barbarism and their unsocial manners.
In one of his curious but brilliant metaphors Bergson likens Life to a river over which the scientists have constructed an elaborate bridge, while the laborious metaphysicians have toiled to build a tunnel underneath.
For example, when he likens the elan vital to a stream, he does not suggest that because the stream manifests certain characteristics, therefore the life force does so too.
In that book he likens an ice-storm to his impressions derived from reading descriptions of the Taj Mahal, that wonderful tomb of a fair East Indian queen.
Lamed, like many others, likens Mark Twain to Lincoln in various of his characteristics.
He also terms the heathen priests and soothsayers “parsons,” and unmistakably likens them and their practices to those of Catholicism.
In later letters he likens Luther to the demagogue Cleon and to boisterous Hercules.
But so it must be; the fact that we are endangered by false brethren likens us to the Apostle Paul, nay, to the whole Church, and is the sure seal that God stamps upon us.
In the parable of the sower the Savior likens one family unto wheat, and the other unto tares.
Jesus likens himself and his people to a vine and its branches.
The parable of the Savior in which he likens the kingdom of heaven unto a man which sowed good seed in his field is also illustrative of the gospel day.
St. Thomas likens the office of the Vicar of Christ to that of the flag-ship of a fleet, which the other vessels, that is, the secular governments must follow on the open sea in order to reach the common haven of safety.
These are expressed in those passages in which our Lord likens his doctrines to the little leaven which leavens the whole mass; and when he tells his apostles to trust in him, the conqueror of the world.
Kepler likens the earth to an animal, and the tides to his breathings and inbreathings, and says they follow the moon.
It likens the creation and control of the world by God to the artificial creation of a talented engineer or mechanic, and to the administration of a wise ruler.
In other passages Meres mentions Shakespeare's lyrical quality, for which he likens him to Pindar and Catullus; and the glory of his style, for which he places him along with Virgil and Homer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "likens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
