How to Use analogous in a Sentence

analogous

adjective
  • Probing an analogous space leads you to learn and stretch.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Old forests are analogous to cities with life that thrives at every level.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 3 Feb. 2024
  • This would be analogous to having one arm tied behind your back.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
  • In the end, this game was all too analogous of the year the Tigers endured.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
  • He was asked why there hasn’t been analogous progress by the men’s national team.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026
  • Try it in a palette of analogous colors such as sky blue and spring green for a soft, serene look.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Such buying and selling is analogous to feeding more or less gas to a car.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Picking up a new language is analogous to a full-body workout for your brain.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The artist agents of recent years look to play an analogous role on behalf of artists themselves.
    — Natasha Degen, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
  • There’s an analogous thing that happens with the Earth system.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
  • This can be analogous to trying to hide your peeing or pooping in a swimming pool.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2021
  • The stair treads and risers are fastened to and held firm by stringers, which are analogous to the joists under a floor.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 24 May 2025
  • What men have done to women over hundreds of years is more analogous to a crime scene than an engine that’s out of whack.
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 3 Oct. 2018
  • In a way, some of this to me is analogous to stuff that happens in Hollywood.
    — Jeremy Egner, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2018
  • The hood of a car, which is more analogous to a frying pan than pavement or concrete, is even hotter.
    — Layla McMurtrie, USA TODAY, 29 July 2022
  • The House’s role in the impeachment is analogous to that of a grand jury.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Oct. 2019
  • In the case of flatware, the analogous dish might be ice cream alone, where the fork would be superfluous.
    — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2025
  • For example, a cool-toned gray couch paired with blue and green pillows would be an analogous color scheme.
    — Tessa Cooper, The Spruce, 31 May 2026
  • Mycelium is analogous to the roots of a plant (although mushrooms are fungi, not plants).
    — Skye Chilton, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
  • Rothfeld said the unit is analogous to a hospital inside the prison.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2020
  • By comparing the sizes of the youngest fish to the growth rates of analogous modern fish, the team even refined this date.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Cash App This app is analogous to Venmo.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026
  • This is analogous to planting different flowers in a garden on the same plot of land.
    — Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 19 July 2024
  • This week, the Democrats should try an analogous approach in Congress.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
  • That’s a bit like pinching and kinking our analogous garden hose, which can obstruct or stop the flow of water.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • This is analogous to the concepts of zero-trust where every session should be assumed to be a breach (at first).
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes, 18 May 2021
  • Their solutions are analogous to putting a Band-Aid on a cancer.
    — WSJ, 3 May 2022
  • The analogous case in text compression would be to sort a list of words and state the distance between adjacent words.
    — Dmitri Pavlichin, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Aug. 2018
  • Churchill would like to set up something within the game space of Magic that is more analogous to a computer.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 23 June 2019
  • That per capita toll is analogous to Germany’s and one of the lowest in the world among larger nations.
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020

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