How to use "simile" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "simile" in popular movie and book plots

  • While Peter’s theory fails to convince Nightingale and Lesley (possibly because he uses the simile of a Terry’s Chocolate Orange) Peter remains convinced the Stadkrone or 'city crown' is intended to act as a magical relief valve, to achieve a controlled overpressure event, an assertion neither Nightingale or Lesley find the least bit compelling.  - Broken Homes

Example sentences for "simile" in interesting articles

  • During epidemics in London the dead were heaped onto carts "like common dung" (the simile is Daniel Defoe's) and trundled through the streets.  - 1491 (2002)
  • During epidemics in London the dead were heaped onto carts "like common dung" (the simile is Daniel Defoe's) and trundled through the streets.  - Life in the Americas Before Columbus (2002)

Meaning of "simile" in English

  • a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

Meaning of "simile" in Hindi

  • उपमा
  • उपमा
  • निददर्शन
  • यथापूर्व (निर्देश)
  • यथापूर्व (निर्देश)

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