metaphor

Example Sentences

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Built around the metaphor of elderberries, a fruit that can heal or poison depending on how it's handled, the song captures the tension of staying in a relationship you know is toxic.

From BBC

The unlikely diplomat trying to end Europe’s bloodiest war since 1945 speaks in golfing metaphors and long asides about the nature of capital markets.

From The Wall Street Journal

One might as well conjecture that 1939’s “The Women” was a metaphor for the Nazi invasion of Poland.

From The Wall Street Journal

Is that a metaphor for life right now?

From Salon

There is an interesting metaphor here for our world today: social media as the outlet for people who have suffered brain damage.

From Los Angeles Times