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Example sentences for: metaphors

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

I refuse, out of conservatism and sheer curmudgeonliness to give up English grammar (like the “neutral” pronouns of reference) when I cannot paraphrase without losing what little elegance there may be in my writing, and I refuse to sacrifice metonyms, metaphors, allusions, and other figures of speech that contain male referents, substituting “big liar” for Baron Munchhausen and “Peeping Thomasina” for Peeping Tom or trying to get around saying or writing Pollyanna, say uncle, raise Cain , or Jesus Christ !
Drawing on occupational jargon for metaphors to enliven communication is a common way to color and illustrate language.
I had been misled by metaphors as much as Ruth."
(War, curiously, is full of meteorological metaphors: a "hail" of bullets, the "fog" of battle.)
Some metaphors simply suffer a sea change.