Words similar to metaphorical

Example sentences for: metaphorical

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

The color plates are pretty, the captions neutral and informative, but the metaphorical message is sharp: Behold what was lost.
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 Truman Show took a higher, more metaphorical route; in EdTV , liberation comes down to exposing the fact that Dad has a penile implant.)
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.
Quite apart from the fact that the association of writing with ink has decreasing literal validity, there is not much metaphorical sense to be made here either, if we take the remark word by word.