LIKEN in a Sentence

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For LIKEN, below is one of 6 sentences:
The mark they thus leave on the whale, may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in countersinking for a screw.

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 Meanings and Examples of LIKEN
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liken
 v.  allege, or think, to be like; represent as like; make or cause to be like
Classic Sentence:
1  "How you do run on," she said coldly, for there was no insult worse than being likened to a Yankee girl.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  The mark they thus leave on the whale, may best be likened to the hollow made by a carpenter in countersinking for a screw.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
3  Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker's last.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
4  Had the child been there he would have said that a second frog had jumped in; but by most people the sound would have been likened to the fall of a stone into the water.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
5  The mind in that mysterious instant Shelley likened beautifully to a fading coal.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence:
1  I always try to liken a bait pile to everyone in your town sharing the same fork at every meal.