Embraces
em·brace
E0105600 (ĕm-brās′)Embraces
See Also: KISSES; MEN AND WOMEN; PEOPLE, INTERACTIONS; SEXUAL INTERACTION
- Almost completely covered by MaButhelezi’s big arms, like a blanket of flesh —Njabulo Ndebele
- Clasped each other like a pair of abandoned children —Natascha Wodin
- Clinch like lovers at the final fade out —George Garrett
- Curled up together like a pair of old dogs —Jean Thompson
- Drawing her toward him he held her and squeezed her out like a bit of old washing —Edna O’Brien
- Drew her to him, crushing her like a pale flower to his breast —Peter De Vries
- Drew the child to her as if she were a springing young tree —Elizabeth Taylor
- Embraced Himiko [name of a character] like a bear hugging an enemy —Kenzaburo Oe
- Embraced him like a hot, wet towel —William H. Hallhan
- Embraced like bears —Madison Smartt Bell
- Embrace like penpals —Ira Wood
- Embraces are keen like pain —Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Her embrace was clumsy like a bad dancer’s —John Braine
- Her long thin arms came up to wind about him and inexorably, like tight thin wires, to hold him down —H. E. Bates
- His arm around her felt as if she’d been born with it there —William Mcllvanney
- His arms are like a cradle in which she is warm and safe —Alvin Boretz, television program, 1986
- Hold hands like teenagers, fingers meshed like the teeth of rusty gears —Ira Wood
- Lay locked like human vines —Charles Bukowski
- Let our arms clasp like ivy —John Donne
- Locked in a profound embrace … like Ahab and the whale —A. R. Guerney, Jr.
Guerney’s simile refers to the guests in his play The Perfect Party. - Marg’s long tanned body entwined Fencer’s like a constricting serpent —Robert Stone
- Pressed herself upon me like someone pressing upon a bruise —Lawrence Durrell
- She vibrated in his arms like a tuning fork —Andrew Kaplan
- Snuggled up together like spoons in bed —Phyllis Naylor
- They’d lie together, like a four-armed creature fearful of amputation —Julia O’Faolain
- Was so huge and soft it was like embracing a cloud and sinking down —Lee Smith