metaphor

Example Sentences

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The “glitterball” of the title, the fixture of nightclub life for decades, was created in Louisville, or so the series claims, and serves as a convoluted metaphor for that Kentucky city.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was vintage Fury - long answers and drifting metaphors.

From BBC

MUNICH—Ask a European official who attended this weekend’s Munich Security Conference about the state of the trans-Atlantic relationship, and you’re likely to hear metaphors about dealing with a troubled, possibly abusive, spouse.

From The Wall Street Journal

But food has no place here as metaphor.

From Salon

Like the watches were a metaphor for their marriage.

From Literature