Use "likened" in a sentence

1. 23Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would take

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2. I felt her shuddering body and likened it to what the trees experienced outside

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3. He likened it to wanting a drink of water and holding a

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4. The skillful tactician may be likened to the SHUAI-JAN

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5. 6 For who in the Heaven can be compared to the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened to the Lord?

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6. 11 But the love of the Lord surpasses all things for illumination, he who holds it, to what shall he be likened?

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7. And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those angels, and they took to themselves wings and flew, and they went towards the north; And I asked the angel, saying to him: 'Why have those angels taken these cords and gone off?' And he said to me: 'They have gone to measure'; And the angel who went with me said to me: 'These shall bring the measures of the righteous; And the robes of the righteous to the righteous, so that they may re-establish themselves in the name of the Lord of Spirits forever and ever; The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect; And those are the measures which shall be given to faith; And which shall strengthen righteousness; And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the Earth; And those who have been destroyed by the desert; And those who have been devoured by the beasts; And those who have been devoured by the fish of the sea, so that they may return and establish themselves on the day of the Elect One; For none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits; And none can be destroyed; And all who dwell above in Heaven received a command and power and one voice and one light likened to fire; And that One with their first words they blessed; And extolled and lauded with wisdom; And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of life; And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect One on the throne of glory; And He shall judge all the works of the holy ones above in the heavens; And in balances shall their deed be weighed; And when he shall lift up his countenance; To judge their secret ways according to the word of the name of the Lord of Spirits; And their path according to the way of the righteous judgement of the Lord of Spirits; Then shall they all with one voice speak and bless; And glorify and extol and sanctify the name of the Lord of Spirits; And He will summon all the host of the heavens, and all the holy ones above, and the host of God, the Cherubic, Seraphin and Ophannin, and all the angels of power, and all the angels of principalities, and of the Elect One, and the other powers on the Earth and above the water

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8. And I saw in those days how long cords were given to those angels and they took to themselves wings and flew and they went towards the north; And I asked the angel saying to him: 'Why have those angels taken these cords and gone off?' And he said to me: 'They have gone to measure'; And the angel who went with me said to me: 'These shall bring the measures of the righteous; And the robes of the righteous to the righteous so that they may re-establish themselves in the name of the Lord of Spirits forever and ever; The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect; And those are the measures which shall be given to faith; And which shall strengthen righteousness; And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the Earth; And those who have been destroyed by the desert; And those who have been devoured by the beasts; And those who have been devoured by the fish of the sea so that they may return and establish themselves on the day of the Elect One; For none shall be destroyed before the Lord of Spirits; And none can be destroyed; And all who dwell above in Heaven received a command and power and one voice and one light likened to fire; And that One with their first words they blessed; And extolled and lauded with wisdom; And they were wise in utterance and in the spirit of life; And the Lord of Spirits placed the Elect One on the throne of glory; And He shall judge all the works of the holy ones above in the heavens; And in balances shall their deed be weighed; And when he shall lift up his countenance; To judge their secret ways according to the word of the name of the Lord of Spirits; And their path according to the way of the righteous judgement of the Lord of Spirits; Then shall they all with one voice speak and bless; And glorify and extol and sanctify the name of the Lord of Spirits; And He will summon all the host of the heavens and all the holy ones above and the host of God the Cherubic Seraphin and Ophannin and all the angels of power and all the angels of principalities and of the Elect One and the other powers on the Earth and above the water

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9. It was more likened

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10. Likened as you witnessed

11. 55 All this I have spoken before you O Lord because you made the world for our sakes 56 As for the other people which also come of Adam you have said that they are nothing but be like to spittle and has likened the abundance of them to a drop that falls from a vessel

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12. 43 Like as the farmer's seed perishes if it come not up and receive not your rain in due season; or if there come too much rain and corrupt it: 44 Even so man perishes also which is formed with your hands and is called your own image because you are like to him for whose sake you have made all things and likened him to the farmer's seed

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13. 10 Jesus answered again in parables and said The Kingdom of Heaven has been likened to a certain king which made a feast for his son and prepared a great banquet and invited many and he sent his servants at the time of the feast to inform those who were invited Everything is made ready for you; come; And they would not come but began all of them with one voice to make excuse; And the first said to them Say to him I have bought a field and I must needs go out to see it; I pray you to release me for I ask to be excused; And another said I have bought five yoked oxen and I am going to examine them; I pray you to release me for I ask to be excused; And another said I have married a wife and therefore I cannot come; And the king sent also other servants and said Say to those who were invited that my feast is ready and my oxen and my fatlings are killed and everything is ready: come to the feast; But they made light of it and went one to his field and another to his merchandise and the rest took his servants and entreated them shamefully and killed them; And one of the servants came and informed his Lord of what had happened; And when the king heard he became angry and sent his armies; and they destroyed those murderers and burned their cities; Then he said to his servants The feast is prepared but those who were invited were not worthy

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14. 3 He spoke of the pigs with this meaning: You shall not cleave he means to men of this sort who are likened to pigs for when they become lustful they forget their Lord but when they are in need they think on the Lord; even like the pigs when it eats knowing not its lord but when it is hungry it cries and when it has received it is again is silent

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15. arose about this practice likened it to the "Procrustean Bed" in the ancient Greek story about

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16. “The means may be likened to a seed, and the end results of the actions to a tree; and there is an inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree

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17. He had a deep voice that could be likened to Bing Crosbie

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18. However, resistance can be likened to a simple magnet

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19. Conan likened it in his mind to a great torrent, dwindling gradually as it rushed southward, to run dry at last in the sands of the naked desert

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20. Therefore may the kingdom of heaven be likened to a certain king who ordered a financial reckoning with his stewards

21. 2 "The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a certain king who made a marriage feast for his son and dispatched messengers to call those who had previously been invited to the feast to come, saying, `Everything is ready for the marriage supper at the king's palace

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22. “I wasn’t going to until she likened Pallas to an Overlord

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23. 1980s, the operating system that hackers once likened to a vi-

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24. Aligning yourself with the truth may be likened to aligning with the force

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25. likened to that of conception in Woman i

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26. Jesus likened Himself to Eve

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27. This same concept, that rain is likened to doctrine appears in many places

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28. ‘Song of Solomon’ where Israel, the religion, is likened to that of a beautiful woman

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29. He likened it to his mother's existence now, possibly free to spread her wings at her own discretion

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30. He momentarily likened himself to Macbeth before he realized

31. The Hood’s condition could be likened to all intents and purposes as a microcosm of the British Empire at that time; ancient, glorious, biggest in the world, shrouded in ceremony, but hopelessly out of date and defective

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32. Wickland was often likened to Dick Clark by many of his colleagues who were astounded by his ability to keep looking younger with each passing year while they continued to age with graying hair, crow’s-feet, and baldness

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33. Then shall the Kingdom of Heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom

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34. Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, which would

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35. Israel may be likened in this situation to a backslidden Christian

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36. “They’re the clock that controls aging and are likened to the caps on

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37. The subconscious mind can be likened to a 4 year old

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38. This can be likened to reading affirmations daily without

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39. antibodies of so prestigiously abstract metaphors such as we are likened to leave a lover

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40. This can be likened to the approach to the AIDS pandemic

41. leather shoes likened to those in the figure at

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42. the mix of oil and water (likened to that in the photo at right) on the

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43. likened to the center cubic part in the

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44. leads to the habit of visualizing the Infinite Creative Cause of the cosmic world as likened to the

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45. My attire was likened to that of the character Laura of the TV series: Little House

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46. As I recall, there was a stock Jesus portrait237 likened to the one at

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47. ” The future can best be likened to a mirage

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48. In this simulation we use and have access to two computers or minds; the subconscious mind which is likened to a quantum computer we call "Sophia" or wisdom, and the conscious / ego mind which functions like a binary computer

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49. living connection, he or she is likened to a withering branch soon

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50. living connection, he or she is likened to a withering

51. I do miss dear Vicki whom I greatly loved, I do miss the cheery Joey, I miss Papa Lindeberg who likened me to Hebe, I miss his wife who kept me in my proper place--it is quite true that I miss these people, but that would never of itself be a feeling strong enough to sweep me off my feet into black pools of misery as I was swept this afternoon, and never, never would make me, who have so fine a contempt for easy tears, cry

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52. as ’Dharma’, are likened to a wheel that moves from country to

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53. Mind is sometimes likened to a

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54. Self Two can be likened to the inner master within you,

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55. Approaching poetry, he likened her to a little flitting busy bird in spring

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56. - the public reaction is likened to the frog, when put

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57. We may each be likened to players upon a stage and everyone has a specific role to play, which is partially written onto Karmic imprints

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58. In this metaphor, the consequences of not keeping the precepts are likened to a cloud

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59. Some have likened snow-boarding to the joys of

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60. The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded

61. Jerry had mentioned that it smarted pretty badly the time I’d dispelled him; he likened the experience to getting snapped in the testicles with a rubber band, only a thousand times worse because the sharp pain was distributed throughout the entire spirit body

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62. The brain is also likened to a computer chip

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63. A New Zealand woman, and film producer, who was viciously attacked and beaten by an intruder in her home, says that suffering and pain can be likened to the pearl syndrome

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64. standard job hunt process can be likened to teaching a course in automotive

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65. They are essentially in essence, intangible and invisible as if likened to a Spirit

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66. Death is likened to sleep because it is a state of unconsciousness, which will

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67. that fell away are likened or compared too thorns and thistles that are destroyed

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68.  Likened to Tyre and Sodom, which would have repented if they had seen the works did in Israel, but Israel

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69.  Likened to a man from which an unclean spirit went out but returned with seven other spirits that were more

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70. Likened to Tyre and Sodom, which would have repented if they had seen the works did in Israel,

71. Likened to a man from which an unclean spirit went out but returned with seven other spirits that

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72. Death is likened to sleep because it is a state of

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73. Death is likened to sleep because it is a state of unconsciousness, which will be followed by an awakening

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74. ' He likened it to experiencing a journey from A to B

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75. ’ It is difficult to believe that if John the Baptist had before his imagination the thought of the indestructibleness of the wicked in the fires of hell, he would have likened them to chaff which is proverbially the thing in creation least fitted to withstand the action of the flames

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76. His doom is likened to the 'great fall of a house built on sand

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77. "The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his field" [Matthew 13:24] "His disciples came unto him, saying, explain unto us the parable of the tares of the field

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78. Likened to Tyre and Sodom, which would have repented if they had seen the works did in Israel but Israel would not repent [Matthew 11:20-24]

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79. Likened to a man which an unclean spirit went out but returned with seven other spirits that were more wicked

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80. Likened to Tyre and Sodom, which would have repented if they had seen the

81. Often have I seen them--Helen and Jimmy--and likened them to ships adrift, and feared for my own little craft

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82. I may add that they say the author left it on record that he likened their friendship to that of Nisus and Euryalus, and Pylades and Orestes; and if that be so, it may be perceived, to the admiration of mankind, how firm the friendship must have been between these two peaceful animals, shaming men, who preserve friendships with one another so badly

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83. He likened his job to that of “a shovel brigade following a parade down Main Street

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84. No one would have thought in looking at this old, weather-beaten, floral-decked tower (which might be likened to an elderly dame dressed up to receive her grandchildren at a birthday feast) that it would have been capable of telling strange things, if,—in addition to the menacing ears which the proverb says all walls are

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85. likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand

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86. The bombs were overtaking them, making a sound that one man likened to the footfalls of a giant: Boom … boom … BOOM … BOOM! At last, Louie and Phil spotted a native hut built on flood stilts

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87. He felt like Whistler laboring over the proto-Ab-Ex fireworks in Nocturne in Black and Gold, which John Ruskin, his supposed buddy, had likened to “a pot of paint thrown in the public’s face

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88. Much as I had made of the fact that this name had never once, between us, been sounded, the quick, smitten glare with which the child's face now received it fairly likened my breach of the silence to the smash of a pane of glass

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89. I have likened it to a sentinel, but its slow wheel, for a moment, was rather the prowl of a baffled beast

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