Okay , so we ca n’t be 100 percent overconfident that these are from " actual " scholarly person papers . [ Update : They are not . ]
1.His thoughts tumbled in his head , making and breaking alliance like underpants in a dryer without Cling - Free .
2.He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience , like a guy who pop off unreasoning because he search at a solar occultation without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high shoal about the danger of looking at a solar occultation without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it .
3.She had a deep , throaty , genuine laugh , like that strait a firedog makes just before it throw up .
4.Her mental lexicon was as bad as , like , whatever .
5.He was as tall as a 6 - infantry , 3 - inch tree .
6.The small gravy boat lightly drifted across the pool precisely the way a bowling ball would n’t .
7.From the attic came an unearthly ululation . The whole picture had an eery , surreal quality , like when you ’re on holiday in another city andJeopardy!comes on at 7:00 p.m. rather of 7:30 .
8.The hailstone leaped from the pavement , just like maggots when you fry them in red-hot grunge .
9.Long separated by cruel fortune , the principal - crossed fan raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight caravan , one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. trip at 55 miles per hour , the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph .
10.John and Mary had never met . They were like two hummingbirds who had also never fulfil .
11.He fell for her like his heart was a mob source , and she was the East River .
12.Even in his last years , Granddad had a mind like a brand trap , only one that had been left out so long , it had rusted shut .
13.Shots ring out , as shots are wo nt to do .
14.The plan was simple , like my blood brother - in - law George . But unlike George , this program just might work .
15.The young fighter had a athirst flavour , the kind you get from not eating for a while .
16.He was as halt as a duck’s egg . Not the metaphorical halt duck , either , but a real duck that was actually gimpy , mayhap from stepping on a demesne mine or something .
17.The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one lissom leg behind her , like a dog at a fire hydrant .
18.It was an American custom , like father chasing kids around with baron putz .
[ These metaphors and similes came from theWashington PostStyle InvitationalBad Simile and Metaphor Contest . ]
