Smiles spread like sunshine in the room.

Meaning: Expressions of joy radiated throughout the room like the sun's rays.

Choice of Words: Smiles are facial expressions of happiness, spread means to extend or distribute over an area, like indicates similarity or comparison, sunshine is the light and heat from the sun, and room refers to an enclosed space within a building.

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Smiles filled the room like sunlight.

Meaning: This means that the smiles were everywhere in the room, just like sunlight fills a room with light.

Choice of Words: Smiles are expressions of happiness on someone's face. Filled means to make something full of something else. Like is used to compare two things. Sunlight is the bright light from the sun.

The room was lit up by smiles.

Meaning: This means that the smiles were making the room feel bright and happy, like a light makes a room bright.

Choice of Words: Lit means to make something bright with light. Up means to move or go higher. By shows what is causing something to happen. Smiles are expressions of happiness on someone's face.

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