Words similar to metaphoric

Example sentences for: metaphoric

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

Also, it is important to note that the categories describe the literal content of the metaphor, not the metaphoric aspect.
Some have experiential reference for some people but are obscurely metaphoric for others, like catbird seat vantage point, which is often treated as arcane but which is meaningful to anyone who has seen the way a catbird alights on a tree branch from where the surrounding territory can be surveyed for provender or predators.
8. Coffin nail is a later allusion to `cigarette': in its earlier metaphoric life it referred to anything that might serve to drive one to an early grave; indeed, some early Western saloons sold tokens bearing the words “coffin nail” stamped on them which were good for a shot of redeye.
And here are some metaphoric masterpieces:
Kedgeree , a vegetable curry, popular with seamen, has, notwithstanding tarry appetites, not the remotest connection with matters nautical; kickback is shown by the OED2e to be a 20th-century coinage, and there is not evidence to suggest it ever had anything to do with maritime affairs; and kite , for which the OED2e includes a 7th-century quotation for the (original) bird sense, found a metaphoric application to sail not much before the middle of the 19th century.