Words similar to metaphors

Example sentences for: metaphors

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

The group's military culture plays into this indictment, as do Coach McCartney's hideous sports metaphors.
Certainly we can consign all sports metaphors to the linguistic cemetery.
Bradley relies heavily on metaphors.
So its leaders have begun to play down the war metaphors.
I am not sure that anyone has attempted their documentation, but it is well known that an enormous number of clichés, idioms, metaphors, and other expressions used in everyday contemporary speech and writing derive from the writings of Shakespeare and other contributors to the imagery and poetry of the language.