Another type of meaning that you can create with connectors is 'manner', or the way something happened. They create this meaning by drawing a comparison.
Now I had prickly heat like my whole skin was burning, hot pinpricks all over me.
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Water gushed into the boat like it was trying to escape from some terrible monster.
Dad was talking as if I didn't know my teeth from my elbow.
Jakub Svoboda made dumplings how generations of Svobodas had always made dumplings.