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.
But the plots have evolved to an abstract level--a kind of metaphorical mist--and Scarpetta has acquired two archenemies: Temple Gault, an evil-genius, white-trash skinhead, and his accomplice, an attractive young psychopath named Carrie Grethen.
Stream is often said not to be used in Australia except in metaphorical ways, normally being replaced by creek . Warburton's use: “sandbanks intercept the stream, which finally splits into narow water-courses and spreads itself over the plains, and so it ends as a creek” suggests a somewhat more complex relation between the two words.
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.
This same egalitarianism fuels the feeling that the Secret Service shouldn't serve, in the mot du jour , as the president's "Praetorian Guard"--that it shouldn't take metaphorical bullets to protect his dalliances.