Words similar to metaphorically

Example sentences for: metaphorically

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Big surprise that a federal judge flung some (metaphorically) at Mayor Giuliani and ordered him to stop harassing the Brooklyn Museum's fabulous exhibit of body parts and other really important art.
McCain has since backed away grudgingly from that allegation ("I was speaking metaphorically," he says), but his aides have kept it alive by publicly urging the Bush campaign to make sure its agents aren't spreading the rumors.
Likewise, it is indisputable that many nautical expressions have come ashore to be used metaphorically by landlubbers.
Metaphorically.
6. "Giuliani Proposes Martial Law"--"And I'm not speaking metaphorically," he declared from his bunker beneath City Hall.