Words similar to metaphor

Example sentences for: metaphor

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

The metaphor for organismal evolution that underlies a natural taxonomic system is a strictly bifurcating tree of species.
Match each metaphor with the object of its scorn.
The Quinean metaphor helps us to understand these differences, and this in turn puts us in a position to evaluate much more effectively the first order normative questions about how medicine ought to be practiced.
The metaphor in canary is senseless, though, because the word is actually a misnomer.
Light is a metaphor for life here, with animated appliances that produce it scattered among the moving gadgets.