metaphor
Example Sentences
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In a 1944 letter, he noted that he sometimes found Welty’s gorgeous metaphors and similes a distraction, “touching something outside the story so vividly that for a moment the mind shifts away from the theme.”
The undercooked turkey may act as a metaphor for your relationship with your sister.
From MarketWatch
It’s a joke, sure, but it also nails the metaphor: gravy is what you get when fortune tips your way; beans are what you settle for when it doesn’t.
From Salon
In 1834, this was seen as totally outlandish, and the bootstraps were a metaphor for this.
From Salon
Thomas Mann made the city a metaphor for decay in “Death in Venice.”
From New York Times
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