Sentence examples for metaphor election from inspiring English sources

This election should be known as the distended metaphor election.

Recently, they've hit on the wheeze of using sport as a metaphor for elections, the idea presumably being that sport has clear winners and losers, and is simple enough for Andy Gray to understand.

Sequentially, the lexical metaphors associate election prospects with trying to win, the possibility of luck, but likely to lose.

Looking around the room at the thousands who packed an auditorium at the Caesars Palace casino hotel, just down the Las Vegas strip from Trump's eponymous tower, Clinton said "the metaphor of this election may be walls or bridges".

Horse race: Used as a metaphor for an election campaign, "horse race" is used to describe a close contest and conveys the feeling of an excitement that people experience when watching a sporting event.

"Court of Public Opinion" is a mostly misleading metaphor for an election.

Beyonce and Lemonade losing to James Corden and Grease: Live! is a metaphor for this election year.

To extend this metaphor further: Presidential elections feel like the Super Bowl all the time.

It could be the perfect metaphor for a New York election, with no one showing up.

Curnel Bridges, a Democrat and a longtime Little League baseball coach, told the group that he views last year's championship game as the perfect metaphor for how the election should be decided.

The relentless banging of heads seemed a metaphor for the regional election which took place last Sunday and saw the Basques demonstrate once again how little they want to do with Spain and how divided they are over what to do about it.