Sentence examples for a figurative from inspiring English sources

I'm not a figurative artist.

It is, after all, a figurative representation.

But balance has a figurative element as well.

He had thought he would always be a figurative sculptor.

She concluded with by throwing down a figurative gauntlet.

A figurative gong went off as I pondered her response.

Someone might hold a figurative gun to your head.

Is that a figurative request or a literal one?

It is a figurative tic, not a literal one.

I thought a figurative sculpture would be too frivolous.

There's also a figurative heartlessness about this passage, too.