Sentence examples for be only metaphorical from inspiring English sources
That American edge may be only metaphorical.
In Tribe's world, popular control over the Constitution is and, more important, should be only "metaphorical".
Our slippery slope is only metaphorical.
We are not London, not yet, and the burning down of Washington this summer was only metaphorical.
The power of fantasy makes literal (and therefore visible, tangible, sensous) what in our world is only metaphorical.
Fortunately in the N.B.A. the shooting was only metaphorical in the Heat's latest sluggish start and gruesome loss to the previously hapless Wizards.
A gentler strand in Islāmic eschatology produced, over the centuries, a series of reinterpretations or adaptations of the original doctrine, some of whose tenets were even claimed to have been only metaphorical.
The N.H.L.'s latest car crash is only metaphorical — the Phoenix Coyotes/Wayne Gretzky mess — and Gretzky graciously told the assembled news media at Monday night's Hall of Fame inductions that he is not bitter about how the league has treated him.
As in the case of mathematical functions, Bolzano insists that speaking about variation is only metaphorical.
However, an exception is provided by a class of cases in which the transfer is not of a physical object but is only metaphorical: That guy gives me the creeps does not imply any volitional transfer of a physical object.
Niyonshuti comes from Rwanda, and he was on his way to London, and it's only a slight metaphorical stretch to say that he was making the entire journey by bike.
