Sentence examples for make a metaphor from inspiring English sources

If you want to make a metaphor out of her lifelong cravings, something she is not inclined to do.

It was before they had reason to think he was doing anything more than trying to make a metaphor real, to bind a team of youngsters and castoffs, a few remaining veterans and those imported to be part of what Pagano refused to call a rebuilding but instead labeled a renovation.

But how do you make a metaphor like that for a Mafia don? Forget the party that Vito Corleone threw for his daughter's wedding, in "The Godfather," or, for that matter, Carmela's kitchen lessons for her infatuated parish priest, in "The Sopranos".

So, for example, the book prompts you to make a metaphor and then says, hey, you just made a metaphor and here's what a metaphor is.

I know the situation well and what I did was make a metaphor, and attempt to explain what the dynamics are there.

Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club awarded the episode a "B+", noting that, while the episode was good, it "falls short of classic status, trying to make a metaphor into flesh, and not quite succeeding".

The restored monarch's political edict is comically made a metaphor for our hero's coital tumble on a laundry floor with a young laundress.

Why? A. They are high in zinc, which is necessary for sperm production B. Shakespeare made a metaphor about them in The Merry Wives of Windsor C. They are said to look like the vagina D. All of the above 5.

Does he ever worry there won't be anything left to make a sex metaphor out of?

Heung Mo Kim's mural-scaled "Soulscape" is a memorable apocalyptic painting that blends structural forms with churning elements to make a convincing metaphor for worldly chaos.

This would make a fine metaphor for the way the film business treats artists if it didn't mean miscasting Mr. Mamet in Bambi's role.