Example sentences for: metaphorically

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

  • The president was speaking metaphorically, of course, about his achievements in estate tax relief."

  • 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.

  • For many years quantum leap (or jump ) belonged exclusively to the physicists, but during the past quarter-century or so it has come to be used metaphorically by speakers and writers who like to flaunt that sort of thing.

  • 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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