Sentence examples for figurative characters from inspiring English sources

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Thunder in literature is mostly figurative; characters, angry or imperious, thunder their lines all the time.

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Pipe railings encircle and divide the lawn, occasionally swelling into amorphous blobs with just enough figurative character to charge the benches and picnic tables they occupy with happy, extraterrestrial energy.

Improper supposition is in effect metaphorical or figurative reference.

You say "banter", completely at a loss as to whether it's you the posh Tory or the figurative posh Tory character that lives inside you like a parasite.

Price, by contrast, awards his characters great figurative powers, endows them with an ability to take everyone's clichés and customize them into something gleaming and fresh.

This is about playing a character – a figurative absolute boy who cares about little more than ice-cold cans and properly funded public services.

According to the National Register of Historic Places, Liberty Arming the Patriot is historically significant as a "good representative of the character of early twentieth century figurative sculpture" and the quality of its design.

The most prominent manifestation appeared when handling kanji (logogram) characters and other figurative patterns.

Warehouses, restaurants, and bars are now spattered in floral patterns, cartoon characters, and hyperreal figurative paintings thanks to icons like Kevin Lyons, James Jean, and OG Slick, as well as more recently established artists like Cinta Vidal, Dan Witz, and Glazed Paradise.

Warehouses, restaurants, and bars are now spattered in floral patterns, cartoon characters, and hyperreal figurative paintings thanks to icons like Kevin Lyons, James Jean, and OG Slick, as well as more recently established artists like Cinta Vidal, Dan Witz, and Glazed Paradise.

Various characters and symbols – some figurative, some actual – make a recurrent entrance into the play of Savannah Band language, as the mad covers to all their albums testify.

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