Sentence examples similar to figurative verb from inspiring English sources

Jane Austen's novels really "sing," you might say, but some creative people aren't content to leave that verb in its figurative state and set about musicalizing the stories.

Part one of the Summa Grammatica sets out the rules governing both common constructions with subject and verb and rules governing figurative constructions.

Headline writers have to be careful to apply the verb to a power, using the figurative sense, and not to military forces made up of people, seeming to take the original sense.

'"Simplicity is important in the digital environment so I coined a combination figurative and invented mark as PIN (taken from the common noun for a map pin and verb to define location), MY (to define ownership by the trader) and DEAL (a colloquialism for an offer such as a discount, fixed price etc).

Figurative, surely.

"It wasn't figurative.

In Middle English, fraught (an etymological cousin of freight) was a verb meaning "to load (a ship)," and the identical form could serve as a past participle meaning "laden (with)." While the verb dropped out of the language almost entirely, the past participle stuck around, typically followed by "with" and an object -- often a burden, whether real or figurative.

J. Verb.

The verb.

He started figurative, surreal-satirical.

He's figurative.