Sentences with 'likened'
Example sentences and phrases with the word likened and other words derived from it.
• « The members of Stephen Hawking's team of relativity experts - some ten to 12 people at the forefront of cosmological research - have been likened "in age, dress, pallor and signs of malnutrition" to "touring support staff for a rock and roll band". »
• « The Wilmot Proviso was an issue of great importance to the Democrats. Would they pledge themselves to support it? At the New York state party convention in Buffalo, Martin Van Buren's anti-slavery supporters - called Barnburners because they were likened to farmers who were willing to burn their own barn to get rid of a plague of rats - came out in favour of the provision. »