metaphors

Example Sentences

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Perhaps you can see how the metaphors between the backrooms and the internet itself multiply from here: Like the backrooms, one can lose oneself forever in the internet.

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

Sound may also generate meaning, according to one theory, through nonverbal metaphors, “as a way of seeing and hearing.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Fans of mixed metaphors will enjoy Czechia's Daniel Žižka, whose song Crossroads finds him in open waters... and in foreign fields, and in a golden cage and also in a "vicious spider web".

From BBC • May 8, 2026

As for animal metaphors, the squid has been joined by the cockroach.

From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026

“None of your damned shadowy Karhidish metaphors, now, Estraven. I waive shifgrethor; I discard it. Will you answer me?”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin