Entrances


en·trance 1

E0164300 (ĕn′trəns)n.1. The act or an instance of entering.2. A means or point by which to enter.3. Permission or power to enter; admission: gained entrance to medical school.4. The point, as in a musical score, at which a performer begins.5. The first entry of an actor into a scene.6. Nautical The immersed part of a ship's hull forward of the middle body.
[Middle English entraunce, right to enter, from Old French, from entrer, to enter; see enter.]

en·trance 2

E0164400 (ĕn-trăns′)tr.v. en·tranced, en·tranc·ing, en·tranc·es 1. To put into a trance.2. To fill with delight, wonder, or enchantment: a child who was entranced by a fairy tale. See Synonyms at charm.
en·trance′ment n.en·tranc′ing·ly adv.

Entrances/Exits

 

See Also: BEGINNINGS/ENDINGS, DEATH, EXITS

  1. (A large man in white) appeared like a cuckoo out of a clock —Madison Smartt Bell
  2. (Children don’t) appear and disappear like toadstools in a lawn —Miles Gibson
  3. Barged in … like a Rugby forward —Frank Swinnerton
  4. Blew in like a boisterous breeze —Cole Porter, from “You’ve Got That Thing,” one of the lyrics for the 1929 musical Fifty Million Frenchmen
  5. Came and went, like bees after honey —Wright Morris
  6. Came as silent as the dew comes —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  7. Came in like a swan swimming its way —Virginia Woolf
  8. Came like swallows and like swallows went —W. B. Yeats
  9. Came like water —Edward Fitzgerald
  10. Comes and goes, like hearts —Elizabeth Bishop
  11. Coming in like a kite on a string —Clive Cussler

    In his novel, Cyclops, Cussler used the simile to describe the entrance of a vessel.

  12. Entered like a wind —Ruth Suckow

    For added emphasis there’s “Come in like a high wind” as used by Aharon Megged in his novel, Living on the Dead.

  13. Enter … tiptoeing like somebody trying to sneak in late to a funeral —George Garrett
  14. Flitted in and out of the house like birds —Anne Tyler
  15. Hopped in, light as a bird —Harvey Swados
  16. Light upon the scene like a new-made butterfly —George Garrett
  17. Like hoodlums come … with neither permits nor requests —Carl Sandburg
  18. Like Santa Claus he came and went mysteriously —Frank O’Connor
  19. Materialize … like a policeman presiding over an accident —Wilfrid Sheed
  20. Plunged into it like a rabbit into its hole —Ben Ames Williams
  21. Popped up here and there like bubbles in a copperful of washing —Frank Swinnerton
  22. Rolling through the front door like a drunken bear —James Crumley
  23. Rushed into the room like a cannon-ball —Romain Gary
  24. Rush in like a gust of wind —Anon
  25. Slinking in like a little ailing cat —Jean Stafford
  26. Slipped in like a cat or the wind —John J. Clayton
  27. Strode in like a conquering prince returning to his lands —Alice Walker
  28. Sweep in here like Zeus from Olympus, with his attendant nymphs and swains —Brian Clark
  29. Swept vivaciously in … like a champion ice-skater —Frank Swinnerton
  30. Was into the living-room … and out again with such speed that she might have been one of the mechanical weather-people in a child’s snow-globe or a figure on a medieval clock, who zooms across a lower balcony as the face shows the hands on the hour —Rachel Ingalls