metaphor
Example Sentences
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"I like to use the metaphor of pruning a tree," she says.
From BBC
The name is not a figure of speech or a metaphor.
From Salon
Myth and metaphor still abound, but they’re more rooted in the everyday reality of a troubled parcel of the country.
From Los Angeles Times
They fermented inside him till they emerged as poetic images and metaphors—“nature, red in tooth and claw.”
But stasis doesn’t make for much of a climax, and as the couple wait in the snowbound airport, the setting also functions as a metaphor for the film as a whole.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
