Answers hid like stars in night sky.

Meaning: Answers were not easy to find, like stars in the dark sky.

Choice of Words: Answers are the information that satisfies a question. Hid means to keep something secret or out of sight. Like is used to compare two things. Stars are bright objects in the night sky. Night sky is the sky at night. This sentence compares the way answers are hidden to the way stars are hidden in the night sky.

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Answers concealed themselves like celestial bodies in the nocturnal firmament.

Meaning: This means that the answers are not easy to find or see. It's like saying, The answers are very hard to find, like trying to find stars in the night sky.

Choice of Words: Answers are the things you say or write when you are asked a question. Concealed means to hide something from view. Themselves means the answers themselves. Celestial bodies are objects in the sky, like stars and planets. Nocturnal firmament is a fancy way of saying night sky. When you put them together, "Answers concealed themselves like celestial bodies in the nocturnal firmament" means that the answers are hidden and difficult to find, just like stars are hidden in the night sky.

The answers were as elusive as the stars in the night sky.

Meaning: This means that the answers are not easy to find or see. It's like saying, The answers are very hard to find, like trying to find stars in the night sky.

Choice of Words: Answers are the things you say or write when you are asked a question. Elusive means hard to find or catch. Stars are bright objects in the sky that shine at night. Night sky is the dark area of the sky that you see at night. When you put them together, "The answers were as elusive as the stars in the night sky" means that the answers are very hard to find, just like stars are hard to find in the night sky.

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