Example sentences for: metaphorical

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

  • ( The Truman Show took a higher, more metaphorical route; in EdTV , liberation comes down to exposing the fact that Dad has a penile implant.)

  • I also didn't find a single phrase to stop and admire--or even one that carried the metaphorical oomph of that terrific milk-carton quote you found in the Times .

  • ABC News would never knowingly be a party to the dissemination of such crude and dishonest propaganda during a real war, as opposed to a metaphorical one like the war on drugs.

  • The other appendix deals with the structure of the Russian proverb and gives separate sections of analytical proverbs, metaphorical ones, similes--proverbial comparisons (about 100), as well as contrasting couplets and negational proverbs, etc.

  • The Latin, Greek, or Old English roots are readily discernible (though I cannot explain the -etz in the last case), and generate few if any metaphorical overtones.


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