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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was built like a basketball player; tall and as thin as a stick insect .
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One of them, anyway - the stick insect couldn't have escaped.
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The initial resemblance of the ancestral stick insect to a stick must have been very remote.
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When I was young I was like a stick insect , then at fourteen or fifteen I put on weight.