Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Inspiring simile examples
Ah, some people have truly mastered the English language... Samples below. -- tj
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Creative Writing
1. She grew on him as if she was a colony of E-coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
2. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makesjust before it throws up.
3. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
4. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch-tree.
5. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
6. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
7. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
8. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.
9. Even in his last years, Grand-pappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left outside so long, it had rusted shut.
10. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil,this plan just might work.
11. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
12. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
13. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
14. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
15. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.
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Creative Writing
1. She grew on him as if she was a colony of E-coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
2. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makesjust before it throws up.
3. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
4. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch-tree.
5. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
6. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
7. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
8. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.
9. Even in his last years, Grand-pappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left outside so long, it had rusted shut.
10. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil,this plan just might work.
11. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
12. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
13. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
14. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
15. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.
