liken

Object

• situation: Jesus likened the situation to an earthly father being asked for something by his child.
• process: Maharishi likened this process to adding candles in a darkened room.
• experience: He likened the existing customer experience in mobile retail to travel agents, where customers wait for their turn with no dedicated areas.
• man: Norwid likens the man who spurns memory to a child in a moving cart thinking the trees are moving.
• church: St. Paul likened the Church to the human body -- " One body, many parts " .

Subject

• writer: The Essenes were likened by the classical writers to the Pythagoreans who did not drink wine or eat flesh and remained chaste.

Modifying Another Word

• once: The package deal with style A Club Med ski holiday was once likened to going to Butlins on snow.
• often: Monsoon clouds are often likened to Krishna, finally arriving to quench the thirst of his lovers.
• sometimes: Go, the national game of Japan The national game of Japan, Go is sometimes likened to two armies settling an unpopulated land.
• even: One person even likened the noise to that of a refrigerator.
• always: I always likened it to the coal mine or the mill in a small village.
• only: I can only liken getting AVDC moving to doing similar to a monolithic pachyderm.

Followed by a transitive particle

• unto: This narrow pathway of earth, the most westerly point of England has been likened unto the snout of an alligator!

Infinitive complement

• speed: The process can be likened to speed dating in that we help you meet other companies through a networking venue.

Preposition: in

• size: The object, which was likened in size to a commercial airliner, slowly rotated above the quiet motorway.

Preposition: unto

• virgin: Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.

Preposition: by

• writer: The Essenes were likened by the classical writers to the Pythagoreans who did not drink wine or eat flesh and remained chaste.