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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:

See Appendix A for the rationale on avoiding sex-linked metaphors, expressions and figures.
Alas, all that the scientists at Los Alamos and in Germany seem to have come up with is a series of new metaphors to describe traffic jams.
Despite his protest to the contrary, Wilkinson has included a number of what can only be termed literary metaphors in sections under Myth that include Primeval, Jewish, Greek, Germanic, and Celtic, but no Roman.
Although many articles, theoretical essays, and books have been written about metaphors, little effort has been made to investigate them systematically: as all of language is itself a metaphor (unless one believes in logomancy), one is continually confronted in the compilation of an ordinary dictionary with examples of semantic and linguistic changes (as well as amelioration, pejoration, etc.) that are tantamount to shifts of meaning that, loosely, could be said to be metaphoric.
If you follow our Ongoing Epic, you become familiar with these characters, handy for making metaphors or making conversation with your fellow North Americans.