Example sentences for: metaphorically

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

  • If Monica must be killed to save the president, she will be killed (metaphorically speaking, of course).

  • According to Mexican and Chicano folklore she metaphorically represents the raped Indian woman that produced the mestizo (mixed Spanish and Indian) race, the Mexican, but she is also considered a double-crosser.

  • Look for value-subtracted to establish itself in metaphorically expansive circumstances.

  • Metaphorically.

  • George Bush--a professed admirer of TR--is the Tarzan of our day: A patrician Yalie (Lord Greystoke), and at the same time a Texan redneck (Tarzan), engaged in wildcatting (could there be a more metaphorically resonant term?)


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