How to Use analogue in a Sentence

analogue

noun
  • Think of it as an analogue for tea time, or even a happy hour.
    — Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2022
  • This camera takes us back to the time when analogue cameras were the norm.
    — Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • So how much of an analogue can your work be for people who aren’t choosing pain?
    — David Marchese David Marchese Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But at least one way its still alive is with analogue photography.
    — Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • That’s a good analogue for the global choices within the game.
    — WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Looking for analogs There appear to be few past years like this one, Klotzbach said.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
  • The Petz map is often seen as the quantum analogue of Bayes’ rule.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The strips cannot detect how much fentanyl is present, and there may be some fentanyl analogues that the strips do not pick up.
    — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • On the surface, Annabelle's story sounds like an analogue for Kate's own.
    — Rosie Knight, refinery29.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • An herbal analogue to aspirin can be made from decocting the bark of a willow tree into tea.
    — Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2025
  • In other words, what is the analogue of the roots of unity for other number systems?
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 May 2021
  • The human analogue is called tacit knowledge.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The cold analogue is a photovoltaic cell on Earth facing the void of space.
    — Sid Assawaworrarit, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Ruben points to a split among federal courts over the historical analogue test.
    — Solcyré Burga, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
  • There was a parade of nations, perhaps overlong, but analogue and human-scale.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • And part of the analogue experience is being there in person.
    — Kristen Tauer, Footwear News, 4 June 2026
  • Thomas has given us a powerful analogue for a nation driving itself off a cliff.
    — Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
  • In the world of research chemicals, the term ‘analogue’ comes up frequently.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Grande, the former Nickelodeon star with woodwind-like vocal chords, is their analogue in the world of dance-pop.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Later, the masking tape comes off, the edges become free-form and the paintings go from digital to analogue.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
  • The closest analogue to the US debt ceiling is the set-up in Denmark.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 9 May 2023
  • One Astros legend serves as a fair analogue to Pressly's run of success.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 21 Feb. 2023
  • But maybe the biggest obstacle to Facebook’s audio hopes comes from the analog world.
    — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 19 Apr. 2021
  • More expensive than Chevrolet analogue, most models guzzle gas, might not fit in your garage.
    — Car and Driver, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In fact, the best way to describe it is as a bridge between analogue passive speakers and modern smart-home solutions.
    — John Archer, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • But the researchers agree that modern grit crust communities can still serve as valuable analogues for what came eons before.
    — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • Amylin Treatments Metsera’s drug belongs to a class called long-acting amylin analogues.
    — Bloomberg, Oc Register, 22 Sep. 2025
  • There lies a reasonable analogue to the nervous system of animals.
    — Barbara J. King, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
  • The instrument displays are both digital and analogue-like, with swing needles.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 21 May 2021
  • In light of recent trends, the book came to mind, practically begging to be recommissioned as an analogue for woke culture.
    — Tim Kelleher, National Review, 18 Mar. 2021

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