Sentence examples for figurative sense from inspiring English sources

But it may be true in a more figurative sense.

Knocked out — in the figurative sense, Slauson meant.

Of these, however, most could only be behind Grainger in a figurative sense.

What is required really is "counter intelligence," in every literal and figurative sense.

When books are cited as agents of liberation, it's usually meant in a figurative sense.

A story about Donald Trump that "just can't be true" in a figurative sense.

Mr. Friedman, he added, was a settlement builder in a "figurative" sense.

That is not even counting the vaguer and more figurative sense of the word.

But in a figurative sense the subject is the South Sea scheme.

In a figurative sense, four families bought a house together at 600 East Sixth Street.

Why, oh why, does he go there?" Where is there in this figurative sense?