Example Sentences

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Rhetorically, though, it makes sense: The metaphor of a plant is easier to accept than the chaos of another.

From New York Times • May 11, 2021

Rhetorically, the speech may not have been especially memorable.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2021

Rhetorically, the tech companies gesture toward individuality — to the empowerment of the “user” — but their worldview rolls over it.

From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2017

Rhetorically, the Administration was an aural experience, heard through the radio-style mesh of the TV speaker.

From The New Yorker • May 15, 2017

Afterwards, men made use of the same word metaphorically, for the knowledge of their own secret facts, and secret thoughts; and therefore it is Rhetorically said that the Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas