Simile Examples

1. The river flows like a stream of glass

2. Blood seeped out of the wound like red teardrops.
3. Paul carried his science project to school like he was transporting explosive
glass.
4. She looked at me like I was speaking in some strange alien tongue.
5. The town square was buzzing like a beehive.
6. Kelsey followed her dreams like most kids would follow a big sister.
7. Kyle looked at the test with a stare as blank as his notebook.
8. The robins are as thick today as flakes of snow were yesterday,
9. Her eyes are like the eyes of statues.
10.The gray moss drapes us like sages.
11.The music burst like a bent-up flood.
12.The curtains stir as with an ancient pain.
13.But now her hands like moonlight brush the keys with velvet grace.
14.I flitted like a dizzy moth.
15.The flowers were as soft as thoughts of budding love.
16.The gray of the sea, and the gray of the sky, / A glimpse of the moon like a
half-closed eye.
17.Yes, the doors are locked and the ashes are white as the frost.
18.A mist about your beauty clings like a thin cloud before a star.
19.She went like snow in the springtime on a sunny hill.
20.Then I knew those tiny voices, clear as drops of dew.

Onomatopoeia Examples

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Mr. Morton told the student to spit out his gum.

Angie sprayed her neighbor with the hose.
Mark tried sneaking in the house but the squeak of his shoes woke up Mom.
Jenna ran around the lunchroom squealing like a pig.
When he sat down, the young boy squished the unfortunate critter in his
pocket.
6. The musician used a coin to strum the guitar.
7. Shaun loved the swish of the basketball net.
8. Mitchel gently tapped the ball into the hole.
9. Time just keeps on ticking.
10.Bobby threw his books down with a thud.
11.That thump made us jump.
12.If you see him, toot your horn.
13.The rain trickled down the gutter.
14.Birds tweeted long before Twitter did.
15.The lawyer chased after the wail of the sirens.
16.The bullet whizzed by his ear.
17.Bobs big dogs woofed at the unfortunate mail main.
18.Beths little dog would not stop yapping.
19.Spaceman Spiff zapped the alien with his ray-gun.
20.Ronald zipped up his sleeping bag.