- a variation of metaphorical.
metaphoric
Example Sentences
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For white authors and readers, Morrison argued, blackness has been more metaphoric than real, a signifier of certain behavioral expectations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
As in all sports novels, climbing offers the characters a framework for living, and Mr. Tallent magnifies every aspect of its metaphoric potential.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
And so it's really nice that people like you notice that sense of us as cloud makers, the little metaphoric embeddings of that pattern.
From Salon ● May 28, 2025
Of course, I immediately went to the metaphoric.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
This begat a tradition of colorful but useless metaphoric descriptions that preoccupied physicians for centuries.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
