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Example sentences for: metaphor

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But these are natural conversations, and it evidently takes so little to make people laugh--an apt metaphor seems to send them into paroxysms of laughter--that one need no longer wonder at the success of stand-up comedians who rarely say anything funny but focus on reminding their audiences of truisms.
The upshot of such control, however, is that each film is sui generis , each with its own unique architecture, its own singular--and vastly influential--cinematic metaphor.
Also, it is important to note that the categories describe the literal content of the metaphor, not the metaphoric aspect.
The metaphor for organismal evolution that underlies a natural taxonomic system is a strictly bifurcating tree of species.
Those who would derive the expression directly from the peg tankard sense are thus not correct, for, while that attribution might have been the original source, the expression itself is traceable only to a metaphor once removed from the tankard.