Sentence examples for first metaphor from inspiring English sources

Given all of the chaos associated with Black Friday, that first metaphor may unfortunately have a lick of truth in it.

Amid all the turmoil, they come and struggle with their first metaphors.

One of the first metaphors she explores is that of herd immunity, after a fellow-mother doubts that that phenomenon is real.

Enter the second metaphor: football.

A second metaphor comes to mind: it's as if, poorly equipped, I were climbing a mountain.

If that precious resource is mined and sold, like West Virginia coal (hey! a third metaphor!) it will inevitably be depleted, leaving only a scarred wasteland.

Winner: draw To add a third metaphor to our comparison (along with boxing and music): in football, two goals often compete for the distinction of best ever – if The Wire is Brazil's sublime team effort against Italy in the 1970 World Cup final, The Sopranos is Diego Maradona's enchanted solo effort against England in 1986.

This third metaphor for learning and inquiring is applied in the next subsection.

The second metaphor is related to my grandparents.

Since I can't think of a third metaphor for "set aside," let's just move along to this season's penultimate Scorecard.

"I don't think we're going to need it," he says, giving the politician's answer, before embarked on his first footballing metaphor of the morning.