Sentence examples for metaphor at from inspiring English sources
Master of metaphor, at three.
There's a metaphor at play.
There may be a metaphor at work here, but if so, it went over my head.
That's why Prime Minister Brown's global New Deal is the right metaphor at the right time.
The metaphor is so exact, in fact, that maybe it isn't a metaphor at all.
(Quotation of one sentence that is very long with a bad metaphor at the end).
"We've sworn off metaphors at my house," a regretful Mr. Powell said later.
Venice, in novels, is usually the cue for a flood of events, or metaphors at least.
Even the former homecoming queen, who is so defensive about her lack of higher education, has an assortment of lyric metaphors at her disposal.
It's time for believers in the old-fashioned creator God of the Bible to go on the offensive, he argues, and he has some sports metaphors at the ready.
We are used to thinking about metaphors like "the biological clock" as if they were not metaphors at all, but simply neutral descriptions of facts about the human body.
