Sentence examples for by using a metaphor from inspiring English sources

At a meeting with Truman and Vandenberg in the White House, Acheson put the aid request in the context of the larger struggle by using a metaphor about how one or two rotten apples could spoil a barrel.

Dahlgren & Fallsberg [ 56] described the analysis process by using a metaphor: Imagine that somebody is given an ordinary pack of playing cards and asked to sort them.

Because the biological process of immune cells interacting with and destroying invasive pathogens is often described by using a metaphor of combat (Kelly et al., 2007), researchers argue that it could readily be incorporated into the rules of play of an interactive card game whose theme is often combat as well (Steinman and Blastos, 2002).

It's about not being loved by someone and wanting that so you kind of hide from that by using a little metaphor from the theatre world [laughs].

The way Bowers likes to describe this change to her patients is by using a musical metaphor.

Analyzing his voter clout by using a sports metaphor, while Clinton is a star player on the Democratic team, he is also uniquely able to play the role of campaign referee.

The user can create selections in image space by using a lasso metaphor.

It's a book with an extraordinary atmosphere – and a demonstration of how science fiction, by using a single bold central metaphor, can open up the possibilities of the novel.

He drove that metaphor home by using a specially woven Indian silk in an iridescent blue-gray-green that looks to him "like stormy water".

Google phones have been delayed, bitter words have been exchanged, and now Google's other, non-search activities in China may be threatened by its saber-rattling, to use a metaphor that's not really relevant.

By using such a metaphor, we hope to help the user anticipate the flow of the application.