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 is too transparent to waste the space for an explanation.
The sandpile theory--self-organized criticality--is irresistible as a metaphor; one can begin by applying it to the developmental stages of a human life.
It's as much about sexual role play, and smoking as a metaphor for love, every popular singer's real addiction.
Dead experts, on the other hand, can opine on topics like swordsmanship, which are so irrelevant that they can be mistaken for a mystical metaphor.
In News Quiz responses and in the wider culture (if there is one), food is used as a metaphor for ideology (bread and roses; let them eat cake) and for character: Their attitudes toward eating reveal something, well, distasteful about President Clinton and Calista Flockhart.