metaphors

Example Sentences

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"Metaphors such as fights and struggles are pretty normal. And he was talking about it contingently, wasn't he? He wasn't saying: 'Go out immediately.'"

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2025

Metaphors may have no place at a concentration camp, but it’s hard to look at this beautiful enclosed space and not see it, perversely, as the most despoiled of Edens.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

Metaphors in particular bypass higher cognitive reasoning centers to make linkages that may not have a basis in reality.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2023

Metaphors pour from him like a Bob Dylan song come to life.

From New York Times • May 16, 2023

Metaphors like those about celestial campfires or galactic backbones were eventually replaced in most human cultures by another idea; The powerful beings in the sky were promoted to gods.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan