figurative
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Figurative designs: Block printing also encompasses figurative designs, which depict human figures engaged in various activities.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2023
Figurative language: language that suggests special meanings or effects.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Figurative sculpture lets us contemplate the human form without consequences.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2019
Just a few still lifes feature in “Three Figurative Painters,” in the atrium of the U.S.
From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2019
But to call Virtue it self Eternal, can not be done without a strangely Figurative Way of Speaking.
From An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War by Mandeville, Bernard
Vocabulary lists containing figurative
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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