Sentence examples for figurative barrier from inspiring English sources

Studying at Barnard and in Israel, cherishing Orthodoxy and yet pushing against the literal and figurative barrier between the sexes called the mechitza, she took her inspiration from a black man of the Xhosa tribe.

Thanks to Regina's friendship with Katherine, her influence continues to provide a figurative barrier for their romance, just as the notice board and their choice of candidates literally did.

It also created a figurative barrier between neighbors — those who like the street closures and say they have restored a measure of peace to the neighborhood and those who oppose them, saying they create a whole new set of frustrating traffic woes.

Very little is known beyond such figurative descriptions of possible NPC barrier entry mechanisms at the molecular level.

However, not only have they failed to contribute, they have actively set up barriers (literal and figurative) to prevent marches from happening.

Back in their home communities, there are many barriers – both literal and figurative – that prevent them from staying connected.

Through Nov. 30 Not urgently driven to break new barriers like his peer Jackson Pollock, James Brooks (1906-1992) came to Abstract Expressionism after a period of Cubist-influenced figurative painting, then service as a combat artist during World War II.

Figurative, surely.

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He's figurative.

Trumpspeak is figurative.