Words similar to figurative

Example sentences for: figurative

How can you use “figurative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But when you have paid it all, the New York City Department of Taxation and Finance taps you on a figurative shoulder, reminds you that the city also has an Unincorporated Business Tax, and states firmly that free-lance writers gotta pay this too.
Figurative accuracy seems to have gone to the hogs; is figurative language itself on the decline?
Yet, apart from such figurative and poetic language, Icelandic seems not to confuse lids and lashes.
Here is a small arsenal of words and expressions that turn out to be figurative spark-offs from the language of guns and cannons.
In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble language of us all, the idiom of a frightened and hopeful humanity.