The shoes are an apt analogy.

In general, the transit company suggests that packs be removed and carried like a suitcase, an apt analogy.

One apt analogy would be an internal combustion engine.

I will use an object to get a discussion started but not to draw an analogy.

You could draw an analogy between now and how divided the country was in 1968.

The viewer may draw an analogy to other endangered species such as eagles and condors....

She added she was 'drawing an analogy with the private sector'.

He draws an analogy with another new e-technology: electric cars.

He extends the analogy to explain how he deals with rivals.

He extended the analogy between electrical and mechanical networks.

Extending the analogy, functions of a motor variable contrast to functions of an ordinary complex variable.

It's a false analogy: science graduates need to be pervasive because their skills are needed in all walks of society.

But that has not stopped the majority following the false analogy.

He has perfected casuistry, circumlocution, false equivalence and false analogy.

And let us not get distracted by false analogies with the heptathlon in athletics.

The more he espouses his theory, the more the football analogy makes sense.

I'm going to start this column with a football analogy.

A useful football analogy relates to people and makes a point.

Let's use a football analogy here.

To continue the football analogy, somebody needs to put his foot on the ball and calm things down.

Here, he clarifies the point with another historical analogy.

There are a variety of approaches including not only empirical estimation using econometrics, input-output analysis or simulations but also case studies, historical analogy and so-called common sense or the vernacular.

Some of the historical analogies used to make the case against him are a little wayward.

In pursuit of answers, many bewildered commentators resort to crude historical analogies.

Usually, this column finds historical analogies that offer some consolation.

Is it because, to use an analogy from the law, our entire legal and political system was born of fruit of the poisonous tree?

To use an analogy from the stock market, you have to be a stock-picker, rather than buying the index.

I often use the analogy of a house.

Arguments that use this analogy assume that people's habits or inhibitions act in the same way.

Our eldest had once broken his arm, so we used that analogy.

It's a useful analogy because the more photographs taken, the more invisible the real person becomes.

Well, there's a useful analogy in computing.

Bodybuilding offers a useful analogy.

It's hardly surprising, after all this attention, that such a useful analogy should start to crop up in our own pages.

The overarching goals of bioinformatics and systems biology may provide a useful analogy.