metaphors
Example Sentences
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Their tattered remnants, barely held together with patches and stitching, are poignant metaphors for a battered will that keeps fighting even as protections wear thin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Today there are more than 800–roughly the population of Tapanuli orangutans or wild Bactrian camels, but it’s too late to change metaphors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Perhaps you can see how the metaphors between the backrooms and the internet itself multiply from here: Like the backrooms, one can lose oneself forever in the internet.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2026
Sound may also generate meaning, according to one theory, through nonverbal metaphors, “as a way of seeing and hearing.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
I can think of several creatures that seem designed for this function, if you will accept a microbestiary, and if you are looking for metaphors.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
