How to Use analogy in a Sentence

analogy

noun

• So there's no doubt that there is sort of an arms race or a Cold War, like, pick your analogy.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
• Brooks stepped up to offer advice with a musical analogy.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 29 May 2021
• But the analogy to the entertainment industry breaks apart on the matter of what the fans are paying for.
  — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2024
• To use the analogy of a duck, many leaders have appeared calm on the surface but have been paddling hard under the surface to keep up and stay afloat.
  — Elisa Mallis, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• McDaniels emphasized his point using an analogy that many can relate to.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2021
• The most common analogy that ball designers use is that of a spinning figure skater, who can slow down their speed by extending their arms away from their center of mass.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 27 May 2021
• Always: The analogy of the closed door perfectly describes the dynamic.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 12 May 2021
• Robertson’s deep focus on the filing cabinet grounds the book in history and not historical analogy.
  — An Xiao Mina, The Atlantic, 8 June 2021
• Back to Bernhard's mail carrier analogy, the carrier takes your information and sends it somewhere else but doesn't open it up to see what's inside.
  — Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 11 May 2021
• Another sports analogy that occurred to me is that professional teams sometimes must go through transitions and rebuilding phases.
  — Tony Bradley, Forbes, 26 May 2021
• Sometimes, using the analogy of quotes from a TV series is the perfect example of how to bridge the gaps between diversity and inclusion.
  — Morey Haber, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• In understanding Austen’s reply to a conflicted, conflicting world, the analogy of the martyrs is instructive.
  — Dwight Lindley Iii, National Review, 16 May 2021
• The arguments weren’t particularly new to anyone who has studied the Middle East for more than a minute, but many went further than Carter did in his analogy.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 21 May 2021
• Not out of a well, but out of the — what's a good analogy?
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 29 June 2020
• Evolutionary psychologists often cite the Swiss Army knife as an analogy for the mind, because both have all-purpose tools designed to cope with an unpredictable world.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 10 May 2021
• The bus stops at a red light as the analogy lurches to present day.
  — Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 17 July 2019
• The analogy is kind of like sewing through ground beef.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• And this sort of goes back to the offline analogy as well.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
• The depth chart, to pull up a sports analogy, is quite small.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2024
• Take my analogy away, this idea of a calling in the church.
  — Norma Gonzalez, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 May 2021
• Lakes gives the analogy of a string (the IT band) being rubbed back and forth over a rock (the thigh bone).
  — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 30 Nov. 2022
• An analogy can be drawn from the famed Dolly the sheep over 20 years ago.
  — Ana Santos Rutschman, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
• Munn's essay, which is full of smart points and spot-on analogies, is worth a read.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 21 Dec. 2017
• And that’s where the First Amendment analogy breaks down.
  — Wired, 7 Nov. 2019
• Sticking with the car analogy, think of it like a tune up.
  — Zev Fima, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2024
• The best analogy is the transition from email to snail mail.
  — Polina Marinova, Fortune, 18 May 2018
• In that way, there’s a good analogy with the Human Genome Project.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 14 May 2022
• That’s the problem with all of Greenblatt’s half-baked analogies.
  — Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• Finneas, who at four years older was the first to leave the nest, uses the same analogy.
  — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024
• That may not have been the best analogy, but the point is easy to understand.
  — Darick Spears, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024