As soft as a

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Ms. Kawakubo has told this same boys-in-tailcoats story before, with lace and skirts, but the difference now was a homey softness in the fabrics, as soft as a worn bedspread, and the relaxed, almost sloppy attitude of many of the looks.

He looked as soft as a sponge.

Uncle was now as soft as a coil of excrement.

"She was a feeling as soft as a breeze".

In any event, when I emerged, my skin was as soft as a baby seal's.

And even Armani made his collection as soft as a velvet couch.

The Chunnel is thirty-one miles long and passes through a layer of chalk as soft as an Oreo's filling.

Two years passed with experiment, training and revisions, getting the look and the "hand" of the rug as soft as an otter's pelt, with four weavers working three months on each carpet.

They are as soft as an earthworm and about the same size, and there is hardly a fish, mammal or bird that is not interested in an eel-meal.

intrepidden Imagine sand as soft as sifted flour, a cyan sky and 13th-century Mayan ruins atop a rocky cliff and you have Tulum, a refreshingly unreconstructed resort on Mexico's Yucatán peninsula.

You learn, soon, that these boundaries are as soft as butter: Natalie, a teacher from Cardiff, lists four things she wants in a man (tall, dark, handsome, good bum) that quickly ameliorates as she's curling her hair.