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Example sentences for: trope

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They show Ellison exploring black folklore as a source for black fiction, using flight, for example, as a metaphor for escape--a common trope among slaves who imagined themselves able to fly back to Africa.
Back in New York, Strand started investigating the graphic dynamism at work in the shadows thrown down by the el tracks, and he began seriously investing in the possibilities of the overhead vantage, a Modernist urban trope he would will to Berenice Abbott and sundry Germans and Russians.
The use of "nature" as a trope for libertarian thought goes back a long way before cyberspace.
Today, the personal pronouns my , his , her , their , and our are being deployed before "God" as never before: Such locutions have become a pervasive social trope.
My Russian contact used to call me simply Zorrp, which I found pretty much to the point, and a Hungarian colleague settled for Trope.