figurative
Example Sentences
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Asia’s titans supply indispensable hardware, the figurative picks and shovels of the AI gold rush.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
“Euphemistic speech is the highest form of thinking, human intelligence, an elegant, ‘veiled,’ neutralized, softened figurative expression of reality,” Xilola Inomovna Ismailova, an English teacher at Kokand State University, wrote last year.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
Harmonia Rosales’ Black figurative paintings combine Eurocentric artistic traditions with African diasporic cosmologies as a way to course-correct the historical erasure of Black images from classical narratives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
He also paid for windows with geometric designs rather than traditional figurative scenes, in line with Islamic rulings against the drawings of creatures.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026
St. John’s eyes, though clear enough in a literal sense, in a figurative one were difficult to fathom.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing figurative
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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Vocabulary of the Common Core
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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