Sentence examples for everyday metaphor from inspiring English sources

The term intersectionality was coined in the 1980s by black feminist Kimberlé Crenshaw, who "wanted to come up with an everyday metaphor that anyone could use".

For our ancestors it was an everyday metaphor – the reality of the nearby forest was the reality of the stories and myth-making that grew up around it.

Speculation has been divided ever since that incident as to how and why Devon Loch contrived to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in a way so spectacular that his name has now passed into everyday metaphor.

A good place to begin would be to start using everyday metaphors for all this exotic gobbledegook.

She died in 2007, four years before the government apologised for the killings.Mr Travnik's black-and-white cityscapes, which he describes as everyday metaphors for the violence inflicted by the military regime, record the marks left on Argentina's public spaces.

It doesn't have a countervailing metaphor in everyday existence".

Or you can take "Happy Days" as a grand, brutal metaphor for everyday life and death.

The usual metaphor for everyday software is the tool, but that doesn't seem to be right here.

One of the best-known figures, erotema, the "rhetorical question," is in regular use: "What am I, — chopped liver?" Everyday language seethes with metaphor and figuration.

Curated by artist Susan Hill, this exhibition showcases photographers who seek out random everyday objects ladened with metaphor and hidden meaning, to give viewers just a little breathing space.

Things like star earrings or a hippie necklace everyday can be a metaphor for the appearance you are trying to project.