Road Scenes

Road Scenes

 

See Also: NOISE, VEHICLES

1. The cars come down them [London streets] like rats —V. S. Pritchett
2. Cars nestled around the place like puppies feeding off a giant tit —Dan Wakefield
3. Cars … run along together like sticks on a stream —John Updike
4. Cars were flashing by [on highway] like toucans, bright red, hot pink and high yellow —Hortense Calisher
5. A dirt road that ran like string through some nearby woods —Wilfrid Sheed
6. The divided road looked like a striped gray snake curving across the brown landscape —A. E. Maxwell
7. Far off the highway … lone lights signalled like boats anchored far at sea —Louise Erdrich
8. Gradually the landscape on either side of the road became like an embrace —Susan Engberg
9. Grunting taxicabs … wallowing yellowly in the bright sun like panting porkers —Harvey Swados
10. The headlights of the cars in the deepening dusk were like a continuous stream of tracer-bullets aimed at anyone with temerity enough to cross their trajectory —Cornell Woolrich
11. The highway shimmers like a polished stove top —Mary Hedin
12. The interstate highway was like the ocean. It seemed to go on forever and was a similar color. Mirages of heat were shining in the distance like whitecaps —Bobbie Ann Mason
13. The lighted road seemed to shift like snow —Martin Cruz Smith
14. The motorway opened out before them like a black river, roaring —MacDonald Harris
15. The road, black as a ravine —Helen Hudson
16. The road dipped and rippled like a ribbon —Phyllis Naylor
17. The road lay straight as a spear —Terry Bisson
18. The road like a cat flattening its ears went into a straightaway —John Updike
19. Roads that never stopped … but looped and turned with exquisite abandon, like a ball of yarn given infinite slack —Sharon Sheehe Stark
20. Road that looked as smooth as a tablecloth —Wallace Stegner
21. The road was tree-lined, the oaks arching over the roadway from either embankment like a canopy —Jonathan Valin

    See Also: TREES

22. The road wound like a twisted snake —Stephen Vincent Benet
23. Saw the train pulled like a string of black beads over the horizon —Louise Erdrich
24. The searchlights [of cars on the highway] coursed ahead like elongated greyhounds —Erich Maria Remarque
25. The sound of the traffic is as faint as the roaring of a shell —John Cheever
26. Steely [railway] tracks … like clean penstrokes —Dorothy Canfield Fisher
27. Traffic moved like flies through a sieve —Tom Robbins

Similes Dictionary, 1st Edition. © 1988 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.