metaphor
Example Sentences
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Like the watches were a metaphor for their marriage.
From Literature
“The way he explains is really good. And he explains in like, metaphors and analogies that you’re surprised to hear,” said Malinin, who debuted the quad axel in 2022 when he was 17.
From Los Angeles Times
“You can say, ‘Let’s write about water running down a river,’ not literally, but maybe as a metaphor for migration.”
From Los Angeles Times
His central metaphor is the memory palace, an ancient Greek mnemonic technique that employs spatial imagination to organize and access information.
Opalite is a man-made version of the stone - which Swift uses as a metaphor for the fact her happiness is a tangible, human phenomenon, instead of a product of luck or magoc.
From BBC
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